Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
February 6, 2006
Andrew Headland Jr. ©Stars and Stripes
Taipei, Taiwan, March 21, 1970: Apollo 12 astronauts (from left) Alan Bean, Charles "Pete" Conrad and Richard Gordon pose with Vice Admiral Yu Po-sheng, vice chief of the Taiwanese General Staff, during a visit to the Martyrs' Shrine on the 19th nation stop of the crew's 20-nation goodwill tour. The Apollo 12 mission got of to a scary start with a lightning strike at launch, but Conrad and Bean became the third and fourth men to walk on the moon.
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5,
2006: Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko visits Japan, 1966
February
4,
2006: Boy herds ducks along a highway in South Vietnam, 1969
February
3,
2006: Joni Mitchell performs at Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1983
February
2,
2006: Edward G. Robinson on the set of My Geisha in Tokyo, 1961
February 1,
2006: NAACP head Dr. Benjamin Hooks in Tokyo, 1982
January, 2006
January
31,
2006: Torrejon Air Base riding club, 1988
January
30,
2006: Actress Lana Turner arrives in Germany for a tour of U.S. bases,
1948
January
29,
2006: Gladys Knight and the Pips in Tokyo, 1975
January
28,
2006: Secretary of State Dean Acheson in Heidelberg, 1949
January
27,
2006: Activation Day for the 505th Infantry in Germany, 1959
January
26,
2006: Pole vaulter Bob Seagren at a meet in Tokyo, 1969
January
25,
2006: Rock star Gus Backus in his day job as an Air Force medic, 1960
January
24,
2006: Children in Beirut, Lebanon, 1983
January
23,
2006: Actress Melina Mercouri on location in Greece, 1961
January
22,
2006: A walk on Germany's Lüneburg Heath, 1976
January
21,
2006: Busload of refugees in South Vietnam, 1972
January
20,
2006: Otto Strasser, former Hitler colleague, returns to Germany, 1955
January
19,
2006: South Vietnamese soldiers train on a McGuire rig, 1972
January
18,
2006: Movie producer Otto Preminger arrives in Frankfurt, 1959
January
17,
2006: Billy Joel at Tokyo's Budokan Hall, 1981
January
16,
2006: U.S. Marines in the field during Operation Swift in Vietnam, 1967
January
15,
2006: Bill Johnson wins the Olympic gold medal in downhill skiing, 1984
January
14,
2006: Boats in Da Nang Harbor, 1967
January
13,
2006: The Bee Gees prepare to start their world tour, 1989
January
12,
2006: Dog chases a motorcycle in the Netherlands, 1961
January
11,
2006: De-icing a C-130 aircraft at Rhein-Main, 1980
January
10,
2006: Courtney Love at Frankfurt's Volksbildungsheim, 1995
January
9,
2006: Pastoral scene in Holland, 1957
January 8,
2006: Singer Lou Rawls, during a USO tour of the Far East, 1983
January 7,
2006: Guitarist Carlos Santana performs in Frankfurt, 1981
January 6,
2006: President Eisenhower at a NATO summit in Paris, 1957
January 5,
2006: Soviet war memorial in East Berlin, 1950
January 4,
2006: Soldiers pause for a photo while on patrol in South Vietnam, 1969
January 3,
2006: Diana Ross onstage in Frankfurt, 1976
January 2,
2006: Berlin motorcycle policemen perform a stunt during their annual
show, 1961
January 1,
2006: Sculpture causes a stir at the Seoul Museum of Modern Art, 1980
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