Edward Dixon ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, January 25, 1974: Hundreds of Japanese Christians bearing signs and a huge effigy of Richard M. Nixon march from Meiji Park to the U.S. Embassy in a show of support for the United States and its beleaguered (by the Watergate scandal) president.

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September, 2004
September 26, 2004: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen in Germany, 1951
September 25, 2004: William Casey, future CIA director, gets an honorary degree in Korea, 1975
September 24, 2004: Getting the news out during the U.S. intervention in Lebanon, 1958
September 23, 2004: Movie producer and director Cecil B. DeMille in Frankfurt, 1957
September 22, 2004: Jack Paar broadcasts from Berlin after construction of the Wall, 1961
September 21, 2004: Secretary of State Dean Rusk in Tokyo, 1963
September 20, 2004: Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, during filming of The Road to Hong Kong, 1961
September 19, 2004: Fire destroys the Darmstadt Military Community's firehouse, 1947
September 18, 2004: Soldiers from the 196th Light Infantry Brigade arrive in Vietnam, 1966
September 17, 2004: Demonstration of a YC-14 transport plane prototype, 1977
September 16, 2004: Crow Indians visit Germany to promote tourism in Montana and Wyoming, 1972
September 15, 2004: Generals McAuliffe and Westmoreland greet Rep. Gerald Ford, 1955
September 14, 2004: Piano prodigy Van Cliburn arrives in Heidelberg, 1958
September 13, 2004: Artillerymen in Germany pose with a 280mm "atomic cannon," 1956
September 12, 2004: Ann Sheridan and Cary Grant, honorary Heidelberg post fire chiefs, 1948
September 11, 2004: Congressman Adam Clayton Powell arrives in Germany, 1953
September 10, 2004: Elizabeth Taylor visits Japan to promote AIDS research, 1987
September 9, 2004: Dallas Cowboys lineman Bob Lilly as a military photographer, 1967
September 8, 2004: Actor Sean Flynn, Errol's son, on the set of The Son of Captain Blood, 1961
September 7, 2004: Manufacturing the Medal of Honor, 1968
September 6, 2004: The Beatles onstage at Tokyo's Budokan hall, 1966
September 5, 2004: Rev. Billy Graham at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam, 1968
September 4, 2004: Accident on a dangerous stretch of the German autobahn, 1953
September 3, 2004: Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain III returns after 5½ years as a POW, 1973
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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