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.

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.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Korean teens from Choong-buk Arts High School perform a traditional fan dance for Laura Bush at the Samcheong-kag theater in Seoul on Feb. 20, 2002.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: One pressman adjusts the printing machine setting while another checks a Stars and Stripes Pacific edition newspaper coming from the printing machine at Hardy Barracks in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 1, 1956.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: An Iraqi policeman searches a home suspected to be a base of operations for insurgents in Albu Faraj, Iraq, Jan. 3, 2007.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: five Stars and Stripes staff eat ramen at their desks in Tokyo, Japan, 1955.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: The meat department at the Berlin commissary in West Berlin’s American Sector three months into the Berlin Blockade, Berlin, West Germany, Sep. 21, 1948.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Smiling U.S. Ninth Army soldiers in Beckum, Germany, hold extra editions of Stars and Stripes announcing news of German’s surrender, May 8, 1945.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: The Honor Guard from Ft. Riley folds the flag that draped a homeless veteran’s casket at his funeral, Wichita, Kansas, Sep. 12, 2012.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Army Pfc. Tamelle Hill, a smoke generator operator with the 4th Chemical Company, tries to repair a broken track in the soft sand by the Imjin river valley, South Korea, March 2, 2002.