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Archive photo of the day

From the Stars and Stripes archives: As if they were entering a liberated city, a Marine Light Armored Vehicle crew rolls into Gnjilane in eastern Kosovo to enthusiastic ethnic Albanians eager to see their arrival, June 15, 1999.

Keeping cool by the pool, 1961

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Jayne Mansfield has the right idea about keeping cool in the summer heat as she poses for the gathered press photographers by a pool in Frankfurt, Germany, June 22, 1961.

Spectacle of hoses, 2004

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Fire engines from about 30 Sasebo City Fire Department detachments on Tuesday gather near the Albuquerque Bridge to fire powerful streams of water, Sasebo, Japan, Jan. 6, 2004.



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Sweetening up military life, 2015

From the Stars and Stripes archives: First lady Michelle Obama serves ice cream to children of service members during an event in support of military families, offering up some caramel sauce as a topping, Vicenza, Italy, June 19, 2015.

Liftoff, 2000

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter lifts out a KFOR Explosive Ordanceman in an air medevac extraction training at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, Oct. 30, 2000.

Acid drop at the skatepark, 2000

From the Stars and Stripes archives: a student at Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station in Japan flies high in the air after jumping off a ramp — performing what skaters call an acid drop — at the base’s skateboard park, Dec. 12, 2000.

Woody Woodpecker and his laugh, 1969

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Walter and Gracie Stafford-Lantz — the creator and the voice respectively of Woody Woodpecker — visited school children at the Seoul American School in South Korea, Dec. 4, 1969.

Operation Meade River, 1968

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A marine of G Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division gunner sits atop his mud-crusted track vehicle, South of Da Nang, South Vietnam, Nov. 25, 1968.

Throwing some shade, 1959

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Visitors try to find some shade under the wing of an aircraft during the Fukuoka Airport Festival held in the last days of September 1959. 

Unfamiliar terrain, 2015

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A view from inside a Dutch Chinook as another Dutch Chinook prepares to taxi the runway at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Sept. 8, 2015.

Operation Dynamic Front, 2017

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A Lithuanian soldier observes artillery fire from inside a camouflaged enclosure during Operation Dynamic Front in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Mar. 8, 2017.

Crates full of sunshine, 2005

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Chloe Stevens is proud of her haul during a field trip to pick fresh mikans in orchards near Sasebo Naval Base’s Hario Housing Village in 2005.

The Motor City Madman, 1976

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Guitarist Ted Nugent, also known as “The Motor City Madman,” strikes a pose backstage with his signature Gibson Byrdland guitar during the Rottweil Rock Circus music festival in Rottweil, Germany, 1976:

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