Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
November 25, 2003
Richard Petty
Mike Spear ©Stars and Stripes

Level Cross, N.C., December 20, 1977: NASCAR great Richard Petty, at Petty Enterprises' facility near Randleman, N.C., with the Dodge Charger he had driven in competition for four years. Petty was in the process of switching to a Dodge Magnum for the 1978 season, and would end up behind the wheel of a Chevy before the year was over.

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Click here to read Stripes' 1977 feature in which Richard Petty talks about his career and his sport.


Past photos of the day

November, 2003
November 24, 2003: Basketball star Pete Maravich puts on a clinic at Mannheim, 1975 (With story)
November 23, 2003: Omaha Beach three years after D-Day, 1947 (With story)
November 22, 2003: President John F. Kennedy begins his European visit, 1963 (With stories)
November 21, 2003: Mother Teresa stops in Frankfurt, 1987 (With story)
November 20, 2003: A surprise visit from Joe DiMaggio, 1962 (With stories)
November 19, 2003: Aftermath of the first plane crash in the Berlin airlift, 1948 (With stories)
November 18, 2003: President Bill Clinton visits the troops in Kuwait, 1994 (With story)
November 17, 2003: Marines in the Saudi Arabian desert, 1991 (With stories)
November 16, 2003: Actress Goldie Hawn, 1971 (With story)
November 15, 2003: Dennis Hopper displays his art in Fürth, Germany, 1992 (With stories)
November 14, 2003: Children from Chernobyl area visit Germany, 1991 (With stories)
November 13, 2003: Allied Forces Day parade in West Berlin, 1969 (With story)
November 12, 2003: The Harlem Globetrotters frustrate another hapless opponent, 1951 (With story)
November 11, 2003: Battle of the Bulge veterans return to Bastogne, 1988 (With stories)
November 10, 2003: The Berlin Wall begins to crumble, 1989
(With stories and additional photos)
November 9, 2003: The Grateful Dead in Russelsheim, Germany, 1981 (With story)
November 8, 2003: Gary Cooper meets soldiers while on a promotional tour for "High Noon," 1951
November 7, 2003: Former President Jimmy Carter, 1982 (With story)
November 6, 2003: Bob Hope, backstage at Wiesbaden, Germany, 1951 (With story)
November 5, 2003: Rocket expert Wernher von Braun returns to Germany for a visit, 1959 (With story)
November 4, 2003: Sandbag production line in Saudi Arabia, 1990 (With story)
November 3, 2003: The Beatles arrive in Tokyo, 1966 (With stories)
November 2, 2003: Sean Connery, on the set of "Goldfinger" (With story and additional photos)
November 1, 2003: Flutist/singer Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull (With stories)


October, 2003
October 31, 2003: Jonathan Winters rehearses for a show in Germany, 1967 (With story)
October 30, 2003: Gen. Dwight Eisenhower poses for a news cameraman in Germany, 1951. (With story)
October 29, 2003: Gov. Ronald Reagan and son Ron arrive in Taipei, 1971. (With story)
October 28, 2003: Viet Cong prisoner interrogated, 1963. (With story)
October 27, 2003: Fifth anniversary of D-Day landings in Normandy, 1949. (With stories)
October 26, 2003: Richard M. Nixon, Stars and Stripes reader, 1964. (With story)
October 25, 2003: Guitarist Les Paul strikes a pose as he arrives in Germany.
October 24, 2003: Actor James Garner in Saigon, 1967. (With story)
October 23, 2003: Aretha Franklin in Germany, 1968 (With story)
October 22, 2003: "Tunnel rats" at work in South Vietnam, 1967 (With story and additional photos)
October 21, 2003: TV host Art Linkletter talks to a youngster in Wiesbaden, 1967. (With stories)
October 20, 2003: Silent-film comedian Buster Keaton, 1962 (With story)
October 19, 2003: Church service at Ramstein AB, 1959 (With story and additional photos)
October 18, 2003: Nat "King" Cole, onstage in South Korea, 1963  (With stories)
October 17, 2003: Flight deck of the USS Saratoga in the Red Sea, 1990 (With story)
October 16, 2003: JFK and Khrushchev at the Vienna summit, 1961 (With additional photos)
October 15, 2003: A soldier meets up with a camel in the Saudi desert, 1990 (With story)
October 14, 2003: President Reagan's plane touches down at Bitburg, Germany, 1985 (With stories)
October 13, 2003: The Who, at a press conference for their 25th anniversary tour, 1989 (With stories)
October 12, 2003: Handicapped kids enjoy a stay at a German estate, 1957
October 11, 2003: A HAWK missile battery in the Saudi desert, 1990 (With stories)
October 10, 2003: Neil Young at the Schüttorf Open Air Festival, 1993 (With stories)
October 9, 2003: Soldier greets his mom, Gypsy Rose Lee, at the airport, 1965 (With story)
October 8, 2003: Nicolas Minue Challenge obstacle course, 1977 (With story and additional photos)
October 7, 2003: Ozzy Osbourne in Germany, 1989 (With story)
October 6, 2003: George Wallace in Saigon, 1969 (With stories)
October 5, 2003: Caterina Valente at a Frankfurt jazz concert, 1955 (With story)
October 4, 2003: Charlton Heston meets the press in Tokyo, 1966 (With stories)
October 3, 2003: Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie border crossing is removed, 1990 (With stories)
October 2, 2003: Ex-POWs head home after their release from North Vietnam, 1973 (With stories)
October 1, 2003: President Johnson arrives in Manila for a summit meeting (With stories)


September, 2003
September 30, 2003: Blues legend B.B. King, onstage in Frankfurt, 1993 (With stories)
September 29, 2003: Battalion Family Day at Bamberg, Germany
(With story and additional photos)
September 28, 2003: Frank Sinatra stops in Frankfurt on the way home from Munich (With story)
September 27, 2003: Prince Charles and Princess Diana after the wedding ceremony, 1981 (With story)
September 26, 2003: Nirvana's Kurt Cobain at the Rhein Rock Fest, 1991 (With story)
September 25, 2003: Fighting a Rhine River flood, 1955
September 24, 2003: Singer-activist Harry Belafonte, 1988 (With story)
September 23, 2003: Operation Birmingham, Vietnam, 1966 (With stories and additional photos)
September 22, 2003: Gen. Colin Powell watches a Ramstein runway-repair exercise, 1989 (With story)
September 21, 2003: Communists rally in Berlin, 1948 (With story)
September 20, 2003: Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, 1974 (With story)
September 19, 2003: Woody Allen brings his jazz band to Frankfurt, 1996 (With story)
September 18, 2003: Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, 1992 (With stories)
September 17, 2003: Johnny Cash poses backstage at Frankfurt, 1988 (With story)
September 16, 2003: Seagoing wagon train to Neuwerk, Germany, 1960
(With story and additional photos)
September 15, 2003: Country music star and recording industry executive Roy Acuff, 1964 (With stories)
September 14, 2003: Comedian Red Skelton arrives in Tokyo, 1963 (With story)
September 13, 2003: Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy promote education, 1948
September 12, 2003: Bing Crosby with the troops in Germany, 1953 (With story)
September 11, 2003: Life at Patrol Base Diamond II in Vietnam, 1969 (With story and additional photos)
September 10, 2003: Eleanor Roosevelt tours Stuttgart, 1948 (With story)
September 9, 2003: U.S. servicemembers back in Germany after first Gulf War, 1991 (With story)
September 8, 2003: Billie Holiday headlines a Frankfurt jazz show, 1954 (With story and additional photos)
September 7, 2003: Actor Raymond Burr at the Korean DMZ, 1963 (With stories)
September 6, 2003: Adlai Stevenson arrives in Frankfurt, 1953 (With story)
September 5, 2003: Air Force training exercise over Spain, 1961 (With story and additional photos)
September 4, 2003: Supply trucks line up at the start of the Berlin airlift, 1948  (With story)
September 3, 2003: Josephine Baker and her family in France, 1959 (With story and additional photos)
September 2, 2003: Former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis arrives in Germany (With story)
September 1, 2003: Labor leader Walter Reuther, 1953 
(With story)

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