Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
June 15, 2003
Gary Cooper / ©Stars and Stripes
Near Pleiku, South Vietnam, July 1966: A radioman for a 25th Infantry Division squad under Viet Cong fire calls for help from another unit. Stripes photographer Gary Cooper recalled that "things were touch and go for minutes and I thought it best to shoot an M-16 rather than my Nikomat (camera)." It was "all one terrible nightmare," he continued, "sounding like a million rounds all going off at once. You can't distinguish the sound of one bullet or even a burst of a machine gun."
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Past photos of the day
June 14, 2003:
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June 13, 2003:
Sailor watches Martha Raye show through porthole, 1965
June 12, 2003:
Marilyn Monroe visits the troops in Korea, 1954 (With stories and additional photos)
June 11, 2003:
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in Vietnam, 1966
June 10, 2003:
Filming of "Judgment at Nuremberg" (With story and additional photos)
June 9, 2003:
Attempted escape to the West foiled in Berlin, 1961 (With additional photos)
June 8, 2003:
Operation Desert Storm, Battle of the 73 Easting. (With 1991 story)
June 7, 2003:
John Wayne at the U.S. Army Hospital on Okinawa.
June 6, 2003:
Ann-Margret entertains servicemembers in Vietnam. (With additional photos)
June 5, 2003:
A spectator stretches to get a photo of President Gerald Ford.
June 4, 2003:
Robert Kennedy greets admirers in Heidelberg, Germany. (With story and additional photos)
June 3, 2003:
Elvis Presley relaxes during an interview in Germany.
June 2, 2003:
A wounded soldier gets help from two of his comrades in Vietnam.
June 1, 2003:
Gen. Eisenhower gets the news of Gen. MacArthur's dismissal.