Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
September 27, 2005

Frank Sinatra
Ken George ©Stars and Stripes

Tokyo, April 18, 1985: Frank Sinatra entertains the crowd during the second of his three shows at Tokyo's Budokan Hall. A fourth Tokyo appearance, at the Imperial Hotel, featured a top ticket price of about $580 — leading Stripes writer Hal Drake to note that for the same amount, one could go to the local exchange and buy "a rolltop desk of heirloom quality, made by the masters of hand-tooled mahogany in the Philippines."
 
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Past photos of the day

September, 2005
September 26, 2005: Bob Schul of the U.S. wins the 5,000-meter race at the Olympics, 1964
September 25, 2005: Mutual interest in a sidewalk encounter at Cannes, 1958
September 24, 2005: Punk rock icon Joe Strummer with the Pogues, 1991
September 23, 2005: John Wayne in the chow line on Okinawa, 1967
September 22, 2005: Former Army football star Doc Blanchard, 1957
September 21, 2005: South Vietnamese villagers flee flood waters, 1970
September 20, 2005: Marine takes a break from a decontamination drill in the desert, 1990
September 19, 2005: Helmut Kohl visits servicemembers wounded in Beirut bombing, 1983
September 18, 2005: Shattered statue outside a South Vietnamese cathedral, 1972
September 17, 2005: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos at the wheel of a payloader, 1967
September 16, 2005: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev rides through Paris, 1960
September 15, 2005: Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller onstage in Vietnam, 1966
September 14, 2005: Singer Paul Anka signs autographs at the Frankfurt PX, 1962
September 13, 2005: Bicyclist in the former no-man's land at the Berlin Wall, 1990
September 12, 2005: Bombing at Saigon's Metropole Hotel, 1965
September 11, 2005: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, 1974
September 10, 2005: Singer Nina Simone in Tokyo, 1973
September 9, 2005: Boxing greats Joe Louis and Max Schmeling watch Muhammad Ali fight, 1966
September 8, 2005: U.S. airman playing a World War II soldier on a movie set, 1984
September 7, 2005: Joe DiMaggio offers advice to a player from the Taiyo Whales, 1968
September 6, 2005: Mourners ay the funeral of Yugoslavia's President Tito, 1980
September 5, 2005: Actor Warren Beatty promotes his latest film, 1975
September 4, 2005: Shipment of nuts on the way to residents of Bastogne, 1948
September 3, 2005: Baby on a chin-up bar, 1951
September 2, 2005: Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka arrives for a tour of U.S. bases in Germany, 1966
September 1, 2005: A child at the Lichtenstern orphanage in Germany, 1957

August, 2005
August 31, 2005: Actor David Niven on the set in Bavaria, 1971
August 30, 2005: Singer Barry White on his first tour of Japan, 1974
August 29, 2005: East German border guard at the Berlin Wall, 1979
August 28, 2005: A burro finds a shady place to rest in Turkey, 1985
August 27, 2005: Sen. C. Estes Kefauver visits Germany, 1958
August 26, 2005: Philippine President Corazon Aquino and Emperor Hirohito of Japan, 1986
August 25, 2005: 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment soldier in Cambodia, 1970
August 24, 2005: Gen. Matthew Ridgway arrives to review British troops, 1952
August 23, 2005: Singer Vic Damone as a soldier in Germany, 1951
August 22, 2005: President Nixon and Henry Kissinger in Austria, 1972
August 21, 2005: Ballet stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, 1963
August 20, 2005: Gen. Creighton W. Abrams at South Vietnam's National Cemetery, 1971
August 19, 2005: Mother Teresa at the Frankfurt airport, 1984
August 18, 2005: World War II fighter pilot recounts his experiences, 1979
August 17, 2005: Refugees at Camp Jabaliya on the Gaza Strip, 1958
August 16, 2005: Actor Fess Parker, TV's "Davy Crockett," in Vietnam, 1970
August 15, 2005: Aerial view of the Special Forces camp at Plei Me, South Vietnam, 1965
August 14, 2005: United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie, 1948
August 13, 2005: Sportscaster Lindsey Nelson at a Super Bowl party in Stuttgart, 1980
August 12, 2005: Country music great Loretta Lynn visits the troops in Germany, 1983
August 11, 2005: Street typists in Adana, Turkey, 1979
August 10, 2005: Muhammad Ali at a press conference in New York, 1976
August 9, 2005: ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings talks with soldiers in Germany, 1989
August 8, 2005: Marines playing football in the Saudi Arabian desert, 1990
August 7, 2005: The Beatles pose for photographers in Tokyo, 1966
August 6, 2005: Actor Stewart Granger does some shopping at the airport, 1955
August 5, 2005: Football great Benny Friedman conducts a clinic in Germany, 1951
August 4, 2005: U.S. High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant, 1953
August 3, 2005: Glenn Close as a 19-year-old Up with People cast member, 1966
August 2, 2005: Human-sexuality researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey in Germany, 1955
August 1, 2005: Americal Division base camp in South Vietnam gets supplies, 1968

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