RELATED MATERIAL
¶ Click here to read Stripes' story about Eisenhower's meetings with the French troops.
¶ Click here for a related story about Operation Jupiter.
¶ Click here to read a tribute to Gen. Vernon Walters at the CIA's Web site.

December, 2003
December 29, 2003: Wimbledon champ Boris Becker's homecoming, 1985  (With story, additional photos)
December 28, 2003: Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Stewart on their way to Berlin, 1959
December 27, 2003: Songwriter Irving Berlin, 1948
December 26, 2003: USS Wisconsin fires one of its 16-inch guns, 1990 (With stories)
December 25, 2003: On patrol in Vietnam at Christmastime, 1967 (With stories)
December 24, 2003: Bob Hope's Christmas show at Yokota Air Base, 1972  (With stories)
December 23, 2003: Author Ralph Ellison, 1954  (With story)
December 22, 2003: The Cold War is put aside for a few minutes of socializing, 1958  (With story)
December 21, 2003: Architect R. Buckminster Fuller, 1962  (With story)
December 20, 2003: Yoko Ono, on tour to promote her new album, 1986  (With story)
December 19, 2003: Vice President Richard Nixon in Morocco, 1957  (With story and additional photos)
December 18, 2003: Sammy Davis Jr. in London, 1964  (With story)
December 17, 2003: Combat training at Wildflecken, Germany, 1982  (With additional photos)
December 16, 2003: Leonard Bernstein conducts the N.Y. Philharmonic  (With story and additional photos)
December 15, 2003: Actress Joan Crawford on hte way to the Berlin film festival, 1959 (With story)
December 14, 2003: Gen. Alexander Haig talks with troops at a training site, 1976 (With story)
December 13, 2003: Singer (and former military brat) John Denver, 1979 (With story)
December 12, 2003: Soviet and Chinese delegates to Geneva talks, 1954 (With stories)
December 11, 2003: Comedian Jack Benny plays the violin, 1948 (With story)
December 10, 2003: Author John Steinbeck and his wife, on their way home, 1963 (With story)
December 9, 2003: Mortar crew during Operation Pipestone Canyon in Vietnam, 1969 (With stories)
December 8, 2003: Former heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano, 1969 (With story)
December 7, 2003: Sir Winston Churchill reviews his old regiment, 1956 (With story)
December 6, 2003: Readying supplies for Kurdish refugees, 1991
December 5, 2003: Berlin Brigade troops in urban warfare training, 1972  (With story)
December 4, 2003: Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 1972  (With story)
December 3, 2003: Audience at a Bill Haley and his Comets show, 1958  (With additional photos)
December 2, 2003: Rhodes scholars from U.S. service academies at Oxford, 1959 (With story)
December 1, 2003: Jim Henson brings the Muppets to Germany, 1987 (With story)

November, 2003
November 30, 2003: 1st Cavalry Division brings the look of the Old West to Saudi Arabia, 1990
November 29, 2003: Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer at Bad Kreuznach, Germany, 1958
November 28, 2003: MPs help with the grape harvest in Germany, 1969 (With stories and additional photos)
November 27, 2003: Pope John Paul II blesses the faithful in London, 1982
November 26, 2003: Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at EUCOM headquarters, 1951 (With stories)
November 25, 2003: NASCAR great Richard Petty at his shop in North Carolina, 1977 (With story)
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)

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