Steve Stibbens ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, September, 1963: Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara takes his seat in a UH-1B helicopter for a flight over a part of South Vietnam that is infested with Viet Cong guerrillas.

September, 2008
September 29, 2008: Jackie Robinson is interviewed during the Dodgers' Far East tour, 1956
September 28, 2008: Robert Kennedy speaks to students in Tokyo, 1964
September 27, 2008: Actor Eddie Constantine in Paris, 1965
September 26, 2008: World War II hero Gen. Claire Chennault, 1955
September 25, 2008: Former President Ronald Reagan at a Japanese baseball game, 1989
September 24, 2008: Mt. Everest conqueror and yeti skeptic Sir Edmund Hillary, 1960
September 23, 2008: Adm. Arleigh Burke visits a landing operation on Okinawa, 1957
September 22, 2008: Orson Welles draws a crowd at a cocktail party, 1950
September 21, 2008: New York Gov. Thomas Dewey arrives at Frankfurt, 1949
September 20, 2008: Filming of an Alfred Hitchcock movie at Wiesbaden, 1968
September 19, 2008: "Jump school" in South Vietnam, 1967
September 18, 2008: Reggae legend Bob Marley in Tokyo, 1979
September 17, 2008: Billy Mills, Olympic gold medalist, 1964
September 16, 2008: Hank Williams performs at Rhein-Main, 1949
September 15, 2008: West Point cadets visit the Berlin Wall, 1964
September 14, 2008: Soldier in Vietnam during Operation Pegasus, 1968
September 13, 2008: Visitor to the New York World's Fair, 1964
September 12, 2008: The USS Iowa fires its guns, 1985
September 11, 2008: President Eisenhower leaves Paris, 1957
September 10, 2008: Baseball umpiring clinic in Germany, 1957
September 9, 2008: Russian tall ship Kruzenshtern in the English Channel, 1976
September 8, 2008: Revelers taunting a bull in Pamplona, 1960
September 7, 2008: Actress Olivia de Havilland signs autographs, 1959
September 6, 2008: Gen. James Gavin and family leave Gernany, 1954
September 5, 2008: Singer-actor Jerry Reed at Yokota, 1989
September 4, 2008: Artillery unit in Berlin, 1961
September 3, 2008: Chuck Berry onstage in Germany, 1978
September 2, 2008: Barbers at work on a Saigon sidewalk, 1966
September 1, 2008: A greeting across the Berlin Wall, 1961

August, 2008
August 31, 2008: Tony Brooks wins the International ADAC 1,000-kilometer race, 1957
August 30, 2008: World War II German flying ace Adolf Galland, 1959
August 29, 2008: Gen. Matthew Ridgway at Baumholder, 1952
August 28, 2008: Ramstein air show disaster, 1988
August 27, 2008: Winter training exercise in Germany, 1954
August 26, 2008: Hank Snow performs at Rhein-Main Air Base, 1961
August 25, 2008: Japanese police scuffle with demonstrators, 1964
August 24, 2008: Figure-skating champion Carol Heiss at Garmisch, 1956
August 23, 2008: U.S. municipal officials visit Germany, 1957
August 22, 2008: Actor Tom Cruise promotes his latest film, Mission: Impossible, 1996
August 21, 2008: Singer-songwriter Billy Joel waits for a flight in Tokyo, 1991
August 20, 2008: Berlin Wall observation platform, 1971
August 19, 2008: U.S. Olympic Team member is welcomed to Germany by his grandmother, 1948
August 18, 2008: German boy heads for vacation under Kinderlift program, 1956
August 17, 2008: Queen Elizabeth II at a tree-planting ceremony in Tokyo, 1975
August 16, 2008: Break time at Saigon's Independence Palace, 1968
August 15, 2008: Neil Young at Frankfurt's Festhalle, 1996
August 14, 2008: Skaters at an Army Relief Fund benefit, 1949
August 13, 2008: British Royal Marines take part in a demolition exercise, 1959
August 12, 2008: Marine in Lebanon during Operation Blue Bat, 1958
August 11, 2008: Knockout in the 3rd Armored Division's boxing championship, 1959
August 10, 2008: Record-setting loaf of bread, 1980
August 9, 2008: Prime Minister John Diefenbaker reviews Canadian troops, 1958
August 8, 2008: Iraqi prisoner of war, 1991
August 7, 2008: Water skiers at the Army resort on the Eibsee, 1954
August 6, 2008: Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos arrive in Tokyo, 1966
August 5, 2008: President Ford visits Germany, 1975
August 4, 2008: Actress Lana Turner arrives in Frankfurt, 1958
August 3, 2008: Nikita Khrushchev unloads a bouquet of flowers, 1960
August 2, 2008: Mother Theresa stops at the Frankfurt airport, 1984
August 1, 2008: Sean Connery on the set of You Only Live Twice, 1966

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