From the Stars and Stripes archives: Two young Albanians from the town of Gnjilane, near Camp Monteith, Kosovo, play an impromptu soccer game in front of a local grocery store, Nov. 18, 2000.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Taro Leaf cannoneers of the 52nd Field Artillery Battalion team up to get a fire mission underway in South Korea, April 1955.

As the Navy, Army and Marine Corps celebrate their 250th anniversaries this year, the USPS marked the same milestone last month — reflecting a shared legacy of service and commitment.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: More than 300 soldiers and family members run during the Bavarian Health Initiative 5K in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Mar. 23, 2018.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: The rainy weather didn’t curb the crowds at Yokosuka’s Mikoshi Parade, but costumes were altered to repel the wet weather.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: With a wisp of an early morning cloud, the campanile of Florence’s city hall looms between the walls of the Uffizi gallery, partially lit up by warm glow of the early morning sun.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam walk across a canal on a bamboo footbridge in the Nhon Ninh area in Long An province, led by an unnamed U.S. military advisor, July 1962.

The three soldiers are: U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Charles W. McCook, 23; U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. David P. Skjeie, 22; and U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Basil M. Cook, 31.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A machine gunner has set up in a mount of hay during Exercise Jupiter, a three-day enactment of a counterassault in France in 1951.

Shigeaki Mori, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, was on hand recently to help unveil a plaque in the rural Japanese town of Ikachi, near Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, to commemorate the nine-member crew of the Lonesome Lady, an American B-24 Liberator that crashed 80 years ago near the end of World War II.