Ray Belford ©Stars and Stripes
An Khe, South Vietnam, December, 1966: Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck, in Vietnam "to write my impressions of the war," talks to soldiers at An Khe. Steinbeck, who had a son serving in the Army at Pleiku at the time, told his small late-night audience that "all wars are hopeless, but all of the wars have been necessary and this one is also necessary."

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October, 2008
October 16, 2008: Smoking break on an anchor, 1974
October 15, 2008: Emperor Hirohito at an art exhibit, 1959
October 14, 2008: South Korean leader Chung Hee Park transplants rice, 1965
October 13, 2008: Richard Nixon samples sushi, 1964
October 12, 2008: Radio commentator and adventurer Lowell Thomas in Tokyo, 1958
October 11, 2008: Mowing in the snow, 1961
October 10, 2008: Ships refuel in the South China Sea, 1969
October 9, 2008: Naha fish market customers, 1969
October 8, 2008: Prime Minister Nehru of India feeds an elephant, 1957
October 7, 2008: Aftermath of Presidential Palace bombing in Saigon, 1962
October 6, 2008: Author William Faulkner, 1955
October 5, 2008: Peter, Paul and Mary arrive in Japan, 1964
October 4, 2008: Bruce Springsteen onstage at Dortmund, Germany, 1993
October 3, 2008: The 1,000,000th Volkswagen rolls off the assembly line, 1955
October 2, 2008: Dustin Hoffman is interviewed in Tokyo, 1983
October 1, 2008: Old bus becomes a car port in South Korea, 1969

September, 2008
September 30, 2008: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in Vietnam, 1963
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

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