Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
September 3, 2004
Don Gunn ©Stars and Stripes
Clark Air Base, Philippines, March 14, 1973: Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain III steps down from a plane that brought him back to freedom after 5½ years in a North Vietnamese prison. Press reports noted that McCain — one of 108 ex-POWs arriving at Clark that day — appeared to be favoring his right leg, which was broken when his plane was was shot down on October 26, 1967. Among those greeting the future U.S. senator was Adm. Noel Gayler, who succeeded McCain's father, Adm. John S. McCain, Jr., as commander-in-chief, Pacific.
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Past photos of the day
September, 2004
September 2, 2004: Mother Theresa speaks in Tokyo, 1981
September 1, 2004: Life in West Berlin during the Soviet blockade, 1948
August, 2004
August
31, 2004: Last of a vanishing breed, a lighter of gas street lamps in
Munich, 1961
August
30, 2004: Civilians flee fighting at Bung Cau, South Vietnam, 1972
August 29, 2004: Consumer advocate Ralph Nader in Tokyo, 1971
August 28, 2004: Former vice president Richard Nixon and old friend Anna
Chennault, 1965
August
27, 2004: Director John Huston on the set of The Bible in Italy, 1964
August
26, 2004: NBA star David Thompson conducts a basketball camp in Japan,
1983
August
25, 2004: Baseball star Carl Yastrzemski in Tokyo, 1973
August
24, 2004: Dadaist painter and photographer Man Ray at his Paris studio,
1965
August
23, 2004: Actress Jayne Mansfield visits the troops in Germany, 1957
August
22, 2004: Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller stops in Tokyo, 1975
August
21, 2004: Maj. Roger Donlon, the Vietnam war's first Medal of Honor
recipient, 1967
August
20, 2004: An OV-10 Bronco in action over South Vietnam, 1968
August
19, 2004: U.S. Olympic basketball coach Hank Iba protests the loss to
the Soviets, 1972
August
18, 2004: Benny Goodman, "The King of Swing," in Tokyo, 1964
August
17, 2004: College football coaching legend Eddie Robinson of Grambling
State, 1977
August
16, 2004: President Eisenhower rides to the White House on Inauguration
Day, 1953
August
15, 2004: Gossip columnist Walter Winchell, 1953
August
14, 2004: Taiwan schoolchildren celebrate Chiang Kai-shek's re-election,
1972
August
13, 2004: NFL star and Vietnam veteran Rocky Bleier with troops in
Korea, 1975 (With stories)
August
12, 2004: A 50-foot King Kong is unveiled for a movie promotion in
Japan, 1986 (With story)
August
11, 2004: Comedian Joey Bishop in Vietnam, 1968 (With story)
August
10, 2004: Astronaut John Glenn arrives in Tokyo, 1963 (With stories)
August
9, 2004: Ann-Margret at Torrejon Air Base, Spain, 1964 (With story and additional photos)
August
8, 2004: Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler in Tokyo, 1965 (With story)
August
7, 2004: The Mills Brothers onstage in South Korea, 1963
August
6, 2004: Hiroshima Peace Park, 1977 (With additional photos)
August
5, 2004: Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn of Thailand in South Korea,
1967 (With story)
August
4, 2004: U.S. Army Europe boxing tournament action, 1957 (With additional photos)
August
3, 2004: Jockey Mary Bacon, on the track in Tokyo, 1978 (With story)
August
2, 2004: Actress Gina Lollobrigida promotes her book of photographs,
1974 (With story)
August 1, 2004: Expert bottle-balancer from the USS Midway, 1977 (With story)
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