Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
May 8, 2007

Berlin Wall
Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes

Berlin, August 21, 1980: Communist leaders repeatedly told the world that the Berlin Wall was there to keep Westerners out of the East, so whoever built this remote-controlled machine-gun tower with a bed of nails atop it at Bernauerstrasse apparently had trouble reading the compass.
 
Purchase a Print
 


Past photos of the day

May, 2007
May 7, 2007: Dog stands watch over a wounded soldier in Vietnam, 1967
May 6, 2007: Actress Gina Lollobrigida at a photo exhibit in Tokyo, 1974
May 5, 2007: Former New York Gov. W. Averell Harriman arrives in Frankfurt, 1959
May 4, 2007: Gifts for Berlin children are loaded onto an Air Force cargo plane, 1961
May 3, 2007: Massachusetts couple driving 1901 car through Europe, 1960
May 2, 2007: Sophia Loren at the Cannes Film Festival, 1958
May 1, 2007: Truck fire on a highway in Germany, 1965

April, 2007
April 30, 2007: U.N. Emergency Force soldier at the Israeli-Egyptian border, 1958
April 29, 2007: Disc jockey Wolfman Jack in Tokyo, 1976
April 28, 2007: Movie director Howard Hawks, 1948
April 27, 2007: Street scene in Valencia, Spain, 1956
April 26, 2007: Elvis Presley in Germany, 1960
April 25, 2007: Danny Kaye prepares to entertain the troops in Germany, 1948
April 24, 2007: Martina Navratilova plays in the Pan Pacific Open, 1989
April 23, 2007: Patrol in South Vietnam, 1967
April 22, 2007: Ski jumper in the Olympic Games, 1964
April 21, 2007: Oakland A's captain Sal Bando meets another Finley, 1973
April 20, 2007: First day of school in Heidelberg, 1948
April 19, 2007: Guitarist atop the speakers at the Japan Jam, 1979
April 18, 2007: Soldier in Vietnam with mail from home, 1968
April 17, 2007: Crown Prince Akihito arrives at a memorial service for President Kennedy, 1963
April 16, 2007: Redstone rocket fueling exercise, 1962
April 15, 2007: U.S. Air Force's 15th anniversary celebration in Germany, 1962
April 14, 2007: Pole vaulter at the Far East high school track and field meet, 1975
April 13, 2007: Dusting off a sculpture at the Sapporo Snow Festival, 1968
April 12, 2007: The Who onstage at Offenbach, Germany, 1970
April 11, 2007: Boy follows U.S. Army patrol at the Berlin Wall, 1967
April 10, 2007: Baseball fans line up for World Series tickets at Yankee Stadium, 1949
April 9, 2007: Playboy playmate Jo Collins visits the troops in Vietnam, 1966
April 8, 2007: "Gorilla" and captive on a street in Germany, 1992
April 7, 2007: Actress Olivia de Havilland visits a Heidelberg military hospital, 1959
April 6, 2007: Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway takes a bobsled ride at Garmisch, 1953
April 5, 2007: Earvin "Magic" Johnson in the Schweitzer basketball tournament, 1977
April 4, 2007: Berlin Airlift pilots between flights, 1948
April 3, 2007: The Carter Family sings at AFN's Frankfurt studio, 1961
April 2, 2007: USS John F. Kennedy in the Mediterranean, 1969
April 1, 2007: Locals watch a landing exercise in Lebanon, 1958

(Click here for links to Photos of the Day from June, 2003, through February, 2007.)
(Click here to browse the galleries of Stripes photos available for purchase.)
(Click here to return to the Stars and Stripes home page.)