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April 27, 2006

USS Kitty Hawk
Ken George ©Stars and Stripes

Indian Ocean, July, 1981: As an A-6 Intruder is waved off during landing operations aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, flight deck crew members move onto the deck to check for debris that could be sucked into jets' engines.
 
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Past photos of the day

April, 2006
April 26, 2006: Erosion-battling tetrapods on the beach at Rota, Spain, 1957
April 25, 2006: Looking out for snipers while on patrol in South Vietnam, 1968
April 24, 2006: Soldier is assisted after his release from a North Vietnamese prison, 1973
April 23, 2006: Kennedy Space Center Director Dr. Kurt Debus, 1970
April 22, 2006: Tourist in front of Sir Winston Churchill's statue in London, 1989
April 21, 2006: USS Midway in drydock at Yokosuka Naval Base, 1980
April 20, 2006: Da Nang, South Vietnam, railroad station, 1971
April 19, 2006: Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and beauty pageant contestants, 1969
April 18, 2006: Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, dressed for the Middle Ages, 1988
April 17, 2006: Search and rescue boat looms over diver at MCAS Iwakuni, 1974
April 16, 2006: Distance runner Steve Prefontaine at the Munich Olympics, 1972
April 15, 2006: Budding basketball star takes a shot, 1996
April 14, 2006: Gordon Lightfoot onstage at Offenbach, Germany, 1976
April 13, 2006: Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney at Misawa Air Base, 1990
April 12, 2006: Parachutists at the Grafenwöhr training area, 1987
April 11, 2006: The rock group Boston begins a tour of Japan, 1979
April 10, 2006: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower visits Operation Jupiter, 1951
April 9, 2006: Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, 1985
April 8, 2006: Helicopter lands on the USS Midway, 1974
April 7, 2006: Sugar Ray Robinson fights in Germany, 1950
April 6, 2006: The Monkees in Tokyo, 1968
April 5, 2006: Zsa Zsa Gabor and Porfirio Rubirosa, 1954
April 4, 2006: U.S. military vehicles in the Saudi Arabian desert, 1990
April 3, 2006: John Wayne filming a movie on the Japanese coast, 1957
April 2, 2006: Sen. Strom Thurmond runs with the troops at Fulda, 1981
April 1, 2006: Olympic weightlifting medalists, 1964

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