RELATED MATERIAL
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September 22, 2003: Gen. Colin Powell watches a Ramstein runway-repair exercise, 1989 (With story)
September 21, 2003: Communists rally in Berlin, 1948 (With story)
September 20, 2003: Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, 1974 (With story)
September 19, 2003: Woody Allen brings his jazz band to Frankfurt, 1996 (With story)
September 18, 2003: Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, 1992 (With stories)
September 17, 2003: Johnny Cash poses backstage at Frankfurt, 1988 (With story)
September 16, 2003: Seagoing wagon train to Neuwerk, Germany, 1960 (With story and additional photos)
September 15, 2003: Country music star and recording industry executive Roy Acuff, 1964 (With stories)
September 14, 2003: Comedian Red Skelton arrives in Tokyo, 1963 (With story)
September 13, 2003: Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy promote education, 1948
September 12, 2003: Bing Crosby with the troops in Germany, 1953 (With story)
September 11, 2003: Life at Patrol Base Diamond II in Vietnam, 1969 (With story and additional photos)
September 10, 2003: Eleanor Roosevelt tours Stuttgart, 1948 (With story)
September 9, 2003: U.S. servicemembers back in Germany after first Gulf War, 1991 (With story)
September 8, 2003: Billie Holiday headlines a Frankfurt jazz show, 1954 (With story and additional photos)
September 7, 2003: Actor Raymond Burr at the Korean DMZ, 1963 (With stories)
September 6, 2003: Adlai Stevenson arrives in Frankfurt, 1953 (With story)
September 5, 2003: Air Force training exercise over Spain, 1961 (With story and additional photos)
September 4, 2003: Supply trucks line up at the start of the Berlin airlift, 1948  (With story)
September 3, 2003: Josephine Baker and her family in France, 1959 (With story and additional photos)
September 2, 2003: Former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis arrives in Germany (With story)
September 1, 2003: Labor leader Walter Reuther, 1953  (With story)

August, 2003
August 31, 2003: Night firing exercise at Baumholder, Germany, 1956
August 30, 2003: CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, 1956 (With story)
August 29, 2003: Paul McCartney and Wings at Munich, 1976 (With story)
August 28, 2003: President Bill Clinton at Ramstein Air Base, 1996 (With stories)
August 27, 2003: Ed Sullivan films shows at a Munich circus, 1965 (With stories)
August 26, 2003: Pro-Communist rally in Red Square, 1992 (With story and additional photos)
August 25, 2003: Ray Charles performs in Stuttgart, Germany, 1976 (With story)
August 24, 2003: Capt. Pete Dawkins, ex-Army football star, during Operation Utah, 1966 (With stories)
August 23, 2003: A bomb crater on an Iraqi runway, 1992
August 22, 2003: President George H.W. Bush meets the troops in Somalia, 1992 (With stories)
August 21, 2003: Jesse Owens ponders a question during an interview, 1963 (With story)
August 20, 2003: Pope John Paul II on his historic first visit to Great Britain, 1982 (With story)
August 19, 2003: President Lyndon Johnson in Korea, 1966 (With story)
August 18, 2003: Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher and the USS Pueblo's crew are freed, 1968 (With story)
August 17, 2003: Billy Graham stops in Tokyo on his way to visit troops in Vietnam, 1968 (With story)
August 16, 2003: Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder on a promotional tour, 1959 (With story)
August 15, 2003: Elvis Presley begins his Army tour of duty in Germany, 1958 (With story)
August 14, 2003: Robert Kennedy tries out an armored vehicle, 1964 (With stories)
August 13, 2003: Amy Carter makes a friend during President Carter's visit to Germany, 1978
August 12, 2003: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek reviews the Nationalist Chinese fleet, 1968
August 11, 2003: Baseball players arrive in Germany for clinics, 1951 (With story and additional photo)
August 10, 2003: Refugees flee fighting near Saigon, 1968. (With story)
August 9, 2003: Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in Vietnam, 1969. (With stories and additional photos)
August 8, 2003: Sammy Davis, Jr. in Vietnam, 1972. (With additional photos)
August 7, 2003: Errol Flynn gets a kiss at a Frankfurt benefit show, 1954. (With additional photos)
August 6, 2003: Col. Harlan Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder, 1972. (With story)
August 5, 2003: Bruce Springsteen onstage in Frankfurt, 1992. (With story and additional photos)
August 4, 2003: Louis Armstrong, on his way to play for troops in Berlin, 1962. (With story)
August 3, 2003: Nikita Khrushchev reviews Austrian troops before summit with JFK, 1961
August 2, 2003: Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey in Tokyo, 1970  (With story)
August 1, 2003: Supplies on way to Middle East before first Gulf War, 1990 (With additional photos)

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