From the Stars and Stripes archives: Dwight D. Eisenhower discusses maneuvers with some French troops during Operation Jupiter, a French-led multi-nation NATO exercise in the Rhine river area.

Pop star Beyoncé is facing backlash for wearing a T-shirt featuring the Buffalo Soldiers — Black Army units active in the late 1800s and early 1900s — with critics saying it’s offensive to Native Americans.

The captain of the F-1 submarine later testified that, in the fog, he didn’t see the oncoming vessel until the last second. Someone yelled to close the main deck hatch. But it was too late.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of three airmen killed in action in Laos in 1968 when their secret mountaintop radar site was overrun by North Vietnamese commandos.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Nic Mohammad, 8, recuperates at NATO’s Role 3 Hospital at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan on Sept. 27, 2010, after being injured by a bomb blast.

A new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations is about to be written, whether for the better or the even worse. For nearly a half century, the world has witnessed an enmity for the ages. Now the U.S. president is saying, of all things, “God bless Iran,” shortly after ordering the intense bombing of Iranian nuclear-development sites.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Stars and Stripes photographer Kim Ki Sam decided to use some color film and shoot some scenes in and around Da Nang, including several river scenes as this one.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: An Iraqi boy gives freshly baked flatbread to Spc. Acisclo Melendez of Company A, 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry, Hora Al Bosh, Iraq, Dec. 30, 2004.

The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George Washington. It was a man named Artemas Ward.

A day before the U.S. Army celebrated its birthday in Washington, representatives from the Navy attended a small commemoration for a different kind of anniversary: 100 years since one of the first demonstrations of the technology that would become television.