Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
March 20, 2004

Generals Taylor and McAuliffe
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Frankfurt, Germany, April 18, 1956: Two of the legendary military figures of World War II are reunited at the Rhein-Main airport. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army chief of staff (left), is welcomed by Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, USAREUR commander-in-chief. Both men parachuted into Normandy in advance of the D-Day landing, and guided the 101st Airborne Division toward Germany. McAuliffe is best remembered for his succinct reply to a German demand that he surrender during the Battle of the Bulge: "Nuts!" Taylor later served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and ambassador to South Vietnam.

Past photos of the day

March, 2004
March 19, 2004: Bill Boyd, TV's "Hopalong Cassidy," 1954
(With additional photos
March 18, 2004: Cardinal Spellman visits the troops at Mannheim, 1966 (With story)
March 17, 2004: Prime Minister Eamon De Valera of Ireland, 1958 (With story)
March 16, 2004: Europe gets its first UNIVAC computer, 1956 (With additional photos)
March 15, 2004: Peter Sellers, during the filming of After the Fox, 1965 (With stories and additional photos)
March 14, 2004: Demolition of Field Marshal von Rundstedt's WWII headquarters, 1947 (With story)
March 13, 2004: Face to face with Nikita Khrushchev, 1961

March 12, 2004: Real-life "Willie and Joe" slog through the mud, 1971 (With stories and additional photos)
March 11, 2004: Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer-turned-Tarzan, 1971 (With story)
March 10, 2004: Tennis star Maureen Connolly, 1954 (With stories)
March 9, 2004: An island is born off the coast of Iceland, 1966 (With story)
March 8, 2004: Gen. Chuck Yeager at his desk at Ramstein AB, 1969 (With story)
March 7, 2004: Musician Frank Zappa backstage, 1970 (With story)
March 6, 2004: Martha Raye entertains troops during the Berlin Airlift, 1948 (With additional photos)
March 5, 2004: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 1963 (With story)
March 4, 2004: Ex-heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston, 1966 (With story)
March 3, 2004: Former Vice President Richard Nixon and family, 1963 (With story)
March 2, 2004: Author Thornton Wilder, 1948 (With story)
March 1, 2004: Aerial view of divided Berlin, 1967 (With story and additional photos)


February, 2004
February 29, 2004: Author James Baldwin in Stuttgart, 1972
(With stories)
February 28, 2004: Comedian Vaughn Meader, JFK impressionist, 1963 (With story)
February 27, 2004: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, down in the mosh pit, 1994 (With story)
February 26, 2004: Clyde Lee Conrad waits for the verdict in his espionage trial, 1990 (With stories)
February 25, 2004: Ella Fitzgerald performs at a Frankfurt hospital, 1952 (With additional photos)
February 24, 2004: Japanese radicals protest Narita airport work, 1971 (With story and additional photos)
February 23, 2004: Bing Crosby tees off at Frankfurt, 1976 (With story)
February 22, 2004: Ingrid Bergman on her way to Berlin, 1963 (With story)
February 21, 2004: Mr. and Mrs. Tex Ritter begin a tour of bases in Europe, 1971 (With story)
February 20, 2004: Homecoming from the Gulf War, 1991 (With story)
February 19, 2004: President Reagan speaks at Pointe du Hoc, France, 1984 (With stories)
February 18, 2004: Jazz great Lionel Hampton in Germany, 1958 (With story and additional photos)
February 17, 2004: King Saud of Saudi Arabia and King Idris I of Libya, 1957 (With story)
February 16, 2004: Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, WWII hero of two theaters, 1982 (With story)
February 15, 2004: U.S. Marine in the Saudi Arabian desert, 1990 (With stories)
February 14, 2004: Actor Rock Hudson in Germany, 1954 (With additional photos)
February 13, 2004: Gypsy Rose Lee shopping in the Saigon market, 1969 (With stories)
February 12, 2004: Soviet sector police march to a Berlin May Day rally, 1948 (With stories)
February 11, 2004: Bandleader Count Basie, 1968 (With stories)
February 10, 2004: Helicopter landing on the USS Fife in the Gulf of Oman, 1990 (With story)
February 9, 2004: Director Alfred Hitchcock's familiar profile, 1955 (With additional photos)
February 8, 2004: Lenny Kravitz at Frankfurt's Festhalle, 1996 (With story)
February 7, 2004: Sen. George McGovern in Tokyo, 1971 (With story)
February 6, 2004: Dr. Albert Schweitzer and West German President Theodor Heuss, 1951 (With story)
February 5, 2004: The Bridge at Remagen, six years after the crucial WWII battle, 1951 (With story)
February 4, 2004: Country music star Charley Pride, 1967 (With story)
February 3, 2004: Seawolf helicopters patrolling the Mekong Delta, 1967 (With additional photos)
February 2, 2004: A "wedding" in Mogadishu, Somalia, 1993 (With story)
February 1, 2004: Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor at Rhein-Main, 1964 (With stories)


January, 2004
January 31, 2004: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia arrives in Bonn, 1954
(With stories)
January 30, 2004: Orson Welles and Eartha Kitt in Germany, 1950 (With story)
January 29, 2004: Gen. Omar Bradley at Rhein-Main AB, 1947 (With stories)
January 28, 2004: James Brown onstage in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1992 (With story)
January 27, 2004: Korean Army firepower demonstration in Vietnam, 1968 (With additional photos)
January 26, 2004: Muhammad Ali vs. Mac Foster in Tokyo, 1972 (With stories and additional photos)
January 25, 2004: Author-philanthropist Pearl S. Buck in South Korea, 1969 (With story)
January 24, 2004: Health expert Jack LaLanne visits a Sumo stable, 1972 (With story)
January 23, 2004: George H.W. Bush, on his first European trip as president, 1989 (With stories)
January 22, 2004: Siegfried and Roy bring two tigers to a new home in Germany, 1987 (With story)
January 21, 2004: USS Midway battle group returns home, 1991 (With story and additional photos)
January 20, 2004: Prince Charles at RAF Mildenhall, 1982 (With story)
January 19, 2004: Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in Tokyo, 1971 (With story)
January 18, 2004: Producer Otto Preminger at the Cannes Film Festival, 1974 (With related story)
January 17, 2004: Walt Disney visits Berlin, 1963 (With story)
January 16, 2004: Tanks roll through a German town during Winter Shield exercise, 1961 (With stories)
January 15, 2004: Dick Van Dyke, on the set in Germany, 1967 (With story and additional photos)
January 14, 2004: U.S. servicemembers in Somalia, 1993 (With stories and additional photos)
January 13, 2004: Grand Ole Opry stars bring country music to Europe, 1949 (With additional photos)
January 12, 2004: Football star Joe Namath at Munich American H.S., 1978 (With story)
January 11, 2004: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy at Frankfurt's America House, 1966 (With story)
January 10, 2004: Author and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann, back in Germany, 1949 (With story)
January 9, 2004: Roy Orbison, onstage at RAF Mildenhall, 1982 (With story)
January 8, 2004: President and Mrs. Reagan arrive in London, 1982 (With stories)
January 7, 2004: On the set during the filming of "Dr. Zhivago," 1965 (With story and additional photos)
January 6, 2004: A Chinook helicopter is lifted away by another copter, 1981 (With additional photos)
January 5, 2004: Comedian Chico Marx, on his way to perform for the troops, 1949 (With story)
January 4, 2004: Sen. Barry Goldwater in Saigon, 1969 (With story)
January 3, 2004: Liza Minnelli in concert, 1987 (With story)
January 2, 2004: Actor Ernest Borgnine visits the troops in Germany, 1979 (With story)
January 1, 2004: Bono, on stage at the U2 Festival, 1987 (With story)

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