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March 6, 2007

Border station
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes

Germany, February 15, 1954: Beneath portraits of Lenin and Stalin, a guard at a neatly-kept (notice the curtains in the window) East German border station near Berlin watches out for trouble during a meeting of foreign ministers in the city.
 
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Past photos of the day

March, 2007
March 5, 2007: Bookmaker uses "Tic Tac" signals at an English race track, 1965
March 4, 2007: Former United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie, 1959
March 3, 2007: Avid pilot Sen. Barry Goldwater at the controls, 1957
March 2, 2007: Yomiuri Giants teammates Sadaharu Oh and Davey Johnson, 1975
March 1, 2007: Bruno the bulldog, 1955

February, 2007
February 28, 2007: Actor William Holden at the Frankfurt airport, 1960
February 27, 2007: Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, Jr., 1970
February 26, 2007: Helicopters arrive to carry troops on a mission in Vietnam, 1967
February 25, 2007: Visitor looks at the Eiffel Tower from atop the Arc de Triomphe, 1958
February 24, 2007: Actor-director Quentin Tarantino in Tokyo, 1998
February 23, 2007: Sunday service for U.S. soldiers in Lebanon, 1958
February 22, 2007: Singer Wilson Pickett arrives in Germany, 1972
February 21, 2007: Former Vietnam War POW heads home, 1973
February 20, 2007: British soldiers patrol near the Berlin Wall, 1961
February 19, 2007: Weather balloon launch at Giebelstadt, Germany, 1956
February 18, 2007: Zsa Zsa Gabor visits a football rally in Frankfurt, 1954
February 17, 2007: Shipment of newsprint on its way to Berlin, 1948
February 16, 2007: Young resident of Teocak, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995
February 15, 2007: Britain's Princess Anne visits Lakenheath, 1970
February 14, 2007: U.S. Marines leaving Vietnam, 1971
February 13, 2007: Vice President George Bush at the Berlin Wall, 1983
February 12, 2007: Louis Armstrong poses with a fan in Germany, 1961
February 11, 2007: Gun carrier squeezes into a German town, 1959
February 10, 2007: Sports sociologist Dr. Harry Edwards in London, 1988
February 9, 2007: 69th Signal Battalion troops man the switchboards in Saigon, 1968
February 8, 2007: Army chief of staff Gen. Creighton W. Abrams in Germany, 1972
February 7, 2007: Golf course in Iceland, 1966
February 6, 2007: Beach scene in northern Germany, 1976
February 5, 2007: Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna for a summit meeting, 1961
February 4, 2007: Henry Kissinger encounters protesters in Germany, 1983
February 3, 2007: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, 1959
February 2, 2007: Fueling a Phantom jet in Vietnam, 1966
February 1, 2007: Comedian and activist Dick Gregory, 1980

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