Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
May 14, 2004

A-37 Dragonfly
Paul J. Harrington ©Stars and Stripes

Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, April, 1972: Crew chief Sgt. William Cook of Charleston, S.C., pushes an A-37B Dragonfly from the 8th Special Operations Squadron back to its revetment after the aircraft's return from a mission supporting South Vietnamese Army troops fighting in the area of An Loc.

RELATED MATERIAL
Click here to see more photos of the ground crew at work (and rest) at Bien Hoa in 1972.
¶ Read three related stories by Stripes writer Hal Drake:
     April 25, 1972: They say An Loc looks like hell (Click here)
     April 26, 1972: Newsmen take cover as war gets too personal (Click here)
     April 29, 1972: A case of low flying and high risk (Click here)
Click here to view the U.S. Air Force Museum's A-37B Web page.


Past photos of the day

May, 2004
May 13, 2004: Princess Margaret of Great Britain, 1969
(With additional photos)
May 12, 2004: "Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill returns to Nile C. Kinnick H.S., 1978 (With story)
May 11, 2004: A message from Uncle Sam at the Tay Ninh post office, 1968
May 10, 2004: Muhammad Ali takes on pro wrestler Antonio Inoki in an exhibition match, 1976
May 9, 2004: ABBA, onstage at Tokyo's Budokan Hall, 1980
May 8, 2004: Camel market in Saudi Arabia, 1991

May 7, 2004: Chiang Kai-shek visits the carrier Enterprise, 1966 (With story and additional photos)
May 6, 2004: A-1E Skyraiders over Vietnam, 1964 (With additional photos)
May 5, 2004: Country music stars Chet Atkins and Skeeter Davis in Tokyo, 1965 (With additional photos)
May 4, 2004: Vice President Spiro Agnew arrives in Japan, 1972 (With stories)
May 3, 2004: Filming of "Up from the Beach" in Normandy, 1964 (With stories and additional photos)
May 2, 2004: Reggae great Bob Marley performs in Tokyo, 1979 (With additional photos)
May 1, 2004: Adm. John S. McCain Jr., commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, 1969


April, 2004
April 30, 2004: President Johnson mingles with the crowd in Seoul, 1966
(With story)
April 29, 2004: Meeting at Korean DMZ after four soldiers die in ambush, 1968 (With stories)
April 28, 2004: A day in the life of a Hawk missile crew in Germany, 1964 (With story and additional photos)
April 27, 2004: S. Korean villagers' first look at television, compliments of LBJ, 1967 (With story)
April 26, 2004: Soldier gets some rest at Landing Zone Jamie in Vietnam, 1969 (With additional photos)
April 25, 2004: MAD magazine founder and publisher William M. Gaines, 1984 (With story)
April 24, 2004: Composer Henry Mancini, 1964 (With story)
April 23, 2004: Actor Kirk Douglas in Tokyo, 1964 (With stories)
April 22, 2004: Supply drop during Operation Junction City in Vietnam, 1967 (With story)
April 21, 2004: The Dalai Lama opens an exhibit of Tibetan art in Tokyo, 1967 (With story)
April 20, 2004: Actor Mel Gibson, promoting his latest "Mad Max" movie, 1985 (With story)
April 19, 2004: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in a Tokyo motorcade, 1975 (With story)
April 18, 2004: "Woody Woodpecker" cartoonist Walter Lantz visits a school, 1969 (With story)
April 17, 2004: Pro-American demonstrators in Manila, 1966

April 16, 2004: Vice President Dan Quayle plays basketball at Yokota, 1989 (With story)
April 15, 2004: Home run champions Hank Aaron and Sadaharu Oh, 1974 (With story)
April 14, 2004: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu plays the drums, 1969 (With story)
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)

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