Song Jung Il ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, July 17, 1969: President Nguyen Van Thieu sits in on drums for an impromptu musical session during dedication ceremonies for a rehabilitation center built by South Korean army troops. Thieu served as South Vietnam's wartime president from 1967 until the North Vietnamese prevailed in 1975; he fled the country upon the takeover and later settled in the Boston suburbs, where he lived in obscurity.

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¶ Click here to read more about Nguyen Van Thieu from his 2001 AP obituary.

April, 2004
April 13, 2004: A boy's life at Checkpoint Charlie, 1963 (With story and additional photos)
April 12, 2004: Behind the scenes with Bob Hope in Vietnam, 1964 (With story and additional photos)
April 11, 2004: Arnold Palmer competes in a golf tournament in Japan, 1971 (With additional photos)
April 10, 2004: Montagnard children in Vietnam, 1968
April 9, 2004: Col. Levi Chase completes his 500th fighter mission, 1966 (With story)
April 8, 2004: Rene Gagnon, one of the Iwo Jima flag-raisers, returns to Mt. Suribachi, 1965 (With story)
April 7, 2004: Bill Cosby and Robert Culp take a break from I Spy filming, 1965 (With story)
April 6, 2004: Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos with Japan's Emperor Hirohito, 1966 (With story)
April 5, 2004: Billy Mills wins the 10,000 at the Tokyo Olympics, 1964 (With stories and additional photos)
April 4, 2004: Eleanor Roosevelt on her way to the Soviet Union, 1957
April 3, 2004: British fashion model Twiggy in Tokyo, 1967
April 2, 2004: Pope John Paul II at Mainz, Germany, 1980 (With story and additional photos)
April 1, 2004: Judy Garland, in Germany to campaign for JFK, 1960 (With story)

March, 2004
March 31, 2004: Training exercise at Hohenfels, Germany, 1956 (With story)
March 30, 2004: Reunion of U.S., German veterans of the battle at Remagen, 1962 (With stories)
March 29, 2004: The battle at the Hue Citadel, 1968 (With stories and additional photos)
March 28, 2004: New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey arrives in Germany, 1949 (With story)
March 27, 2004: Japan's Crown Prince Akihito on his tour of the West, 1953
March 26, 2004: Henry Kissinger and his parents return to his hometown in Germany, 1975 (With story)
March 25, 2004: Lee Strasberg conducts a seminar on acting, 1978 (With story)
March 24, 2004: Actress Sophia Loren meets the press in Madrid, 1963 (With story)
March 23, 2004: Young Communists rally in Berlin's Eastern sector, 1950 (With story and additional photos)
March 22, 2004: Led Zeppelin onstage in Frankfurt, 1970 (With story and additional photos)
March 21, 2004: Composer Igor Stravinsky, 1955
March 20, 2004: Generals Maxwell Taylor and Anthony McAuliffe, 1956
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)

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