From the Stars and Stripes archives: Spc. Stacy Miller of the Illesheim-based 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment grabs a few winks as the convoy of 11th Aviation Regiment units stops along Highway 1, near An Nasiriyah in southern Iraq on March 22, 2003.

A Navy corpsman killed during the Battle of Okinawa will be the first American in five years added to a memorial on the island commemorating the battle.

Crew members laugh at a joke while rearming operations of the USS Buchanan during Operation Sea Dragon are underway somewhere off the coast of North Vietnam, July 15, 1968.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: General Lyman Louis “L.L.” Lemnitzer looks through some files in the Pacific Stars and Stripes library as librarian Toshi Tokunage looks on in Tokyo, Oct. 3, 1955.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Stars and Stripes staff writer Millard “Corky” Alexander types out the news dictated to him over the telephone in Tokyo, 1958.

The U.S. Navy and Pearl Harbor National Memorial will begin work next week to permanently remove a pair of dilapidated platforms that were connected to the USS Arizona during salvage operations following its sinking in the 1941 Japanese surprise attack.

Eleven-year-old Bill Wheeler rings doorbells for the Fushimiya soba shop down the street from his house, where he lives with his dad, James Wheeler, a Department of the Army engineer, and mom, Amine.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Eleven-year-old Bill Wheeler is learning the intricate recipes and cooking methods of making the 40-odd varieties of Soba in Tokyo, October 1959.

The secrecy-shrouded past of the San Francisco Bay’s Mare Island dates from the Civil War to its decommissioning in the 1990s. It now has scenic hiking areas and newer commercial enterprises that moved in once the Navy left.

Pacific Stars and Stripes cartoonist Shel Silverstein and his former colleagues Al Ricketts (middle), entertainment editor and columnist (1952-1968) and Pat Carroll, staff writer (1954-1959) and holder of a giant bottle of Sake in Tokyo, June 1959.