Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
October 2, 2004
Howard Katzander ©Stars and Stripes
Berlin, September 24, 1947: One of the three huge anti-aircraft cannon emplacements designed to protect Berlin from allied bombing raids still looms over the landscape two years after the end of World War II. The reinforced concrete structures, with walls several feet thick, were also designed to shelter about 8,000 people during air raids, but it is believed that as many as 40,000 may have been crammed into one of them as the attacks intensified in 1945. Three weeks after this photo was taken, Stripes reported that an attempt to demolish one of the buildings with 25 tons of explosives had failed, and a second attempt with four tons of TNT merely resulted in a few cracks. Today, one of the bunkers — at Volkspark Humboldthain in Berlin's Wedding section — is a lookout point that's also used for practice by technical climbers. A good account of life in these shelters during the war can be found in Cornelius Ryan's The Last Battle.
October, 2004
October 1, 2004: Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a tourist in
Germany, 1962
September, 2004
September
30,
2004: Jose Greco and his Spanish dance troupe in Germany, 1970
September
29,
2004: Maurice Chevalier in Paris, 1965
September
28,
2004: Bandleader Harry James plays the trumpet at Frankfurt, 1970
September
27,
2004: Japanese rally in support of President Nixon, 1974
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
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