Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
December 15, 2004

Phil Mahre
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes

Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, February 19, 1984: His body outside the flexible gate but his feet still on the course, Phil Mahre of the United States heads for a gold medal in the slalom at the 14th Winter Olympic Games. His twin brother, Steve, took the silver medal in the event. It was a good day all around for Phil Mahre, whose wife gave birth to a son back in Phoenix. Mahre is the only American male to win the Overall World Cup title; in fact, he did so three years in a row in the early 1980s.
 
Past photos of the day

December, 2004
December 14, 2004: Singer Fats Domino, in Germany to entertain U.S. troops, 1967
December 13, 2004: Lt. Col. Creighton W. Abrams, one of the heroes of the Battle of the Bulge, 1949
December 12, 2004: Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz visits Japan, 1974
December 11, 2004: Steve Kroft of CBS' 60 Minutes as a Stripes reporter in Vietnam, 1970
December 10, 2004: Defense Secretary Melvin Laird with Spain's Francisco Franco, 1970
December 9, 2004: Louis Armstrong plays at the opening of the Walker Hill Resort in Korea, 1963
December 8, 2004: Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle with two former enemies, 1974
December 7, 2004: Jazz great Dave Brubeck in Munich, 1966
December 6, 2004: Prince Charles and Princess Diana in Japan, 1986
December 5, 2004: Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, 1948
December 4, 2004: A greeting for actor Gary Cooper at the airport, 1956
December 3, 2004: Heart-transplant pioneer Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 1968
December 2, 2004: Guitarist Eric Clapton onstage in Germany, 1983
December 1, 2004: Actress Raquel Welch dances with soldiers during a show in Vietnam, 1967

November, 2004
November 30, 2004: Olympic long jump champions Jesse Owens and Ralph Boston, 1960
November 29, 2004: Muppets creator Jim Henson with Kermit the Frog, 1986
November 28, 2004: New York Giants kicker Pete Gogolak in the U.S. Army, 1968
November 27, 2004: Sunset on the deck of the USS Forrestal in the Mediterranean, 1970
November 26, 2004: Secretary of Defense James Forrestal and Gen. Lucius Clay, 1948
November 25, 2004: Thanksgiving time in Vietnam, 1967
November 24, 2004: Out for a winter stroll in Garmisch, Germany, 1974
November 23, 2004: Simon and Garfunkel on their reunion tour, 1982
November 22, 2004: Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson performs in Germany, 1961
November 21, 2004: Walt Kelly, creator of the Pogo comic strip, 1965
November 20, 2004: World War II refugee children prepare to go home to Czechoslovakia, 1947
November 19, 2004: Robert Redford, in Japan on a promotional tour for The Natural, 1984
November 18, 2004: Recipients of Combat Infantryman's Badges for WWII, Korea and Vietnam, 1963
November 17, 2004: Richard Widmark gets help with a movie role from servicemembers, 1954
November 16, 2004: Col. Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, 1978
November 15, 2004: Actress Maureen O'Hara and her husband, a noted aviator, 1969
November 14, 2004: Publishing magnate Henry R. Luce, 1954
November 13, 2004: A boy rides his scooter near the Berlin Wall, 1961
November 12, 2004: Mayor Willy Brandt welcomes Vice President Johnson to West Berlin, 1961
November 11, 2004: Berlin honor guard practices, 1961
November 10, 2004: Family living next to the Berlin Wall, 1966
November 9, 2004: An American MP halts a Soviet vehicle at Checkpoint Charlie, 1961
November 8, 2004: A West Berliner waves to a friend on the other side of the Wall, 1961
November 7, 2004: Comedian Morey Amsterdam, of The Dick Van Dyke Show fame, 1964
November 6, 2004: Charlie Manuel, as a player in the Japanese baseball league, 1979
November 5, 2004: Rod Stewart in concert at Tokyo's Budokan hall, 1981.
November 4, 2004: Children's TV icon "Mister Rogers" visits Okinawa, 1975
November 3, 2004: Gregory Peck, on the set of The Chairman at Taipei, 1968
November 2, 2004: Oberammergau residents relax amid the "Passion Play" commotion, 1950
November 1, 2004: Young spectator at a D-Day anniversary ceremony in Normandy, 1984

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