ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Soldiers kneel during Mass at a 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry field camp near Plei Djereng in Vietnam's Pleiku province in 1966.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A crew member on the flight deck of the USS Nimitz watches as an E-2 Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning aircraft passes overhead during operations in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily in 1976.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Actor John Wayne lines up a shot while playing pool at a hotel during the filming of "The Barbarian and the Geisha" in 1957.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Singer-actress Susan Anton and comedian Jonathan Winters wait their turn to go onstage during a USO show at a Ramstein Air Base hangar in 1982.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Boats surround a Japan Air Lines DC-8 that crashed in a shallow part of Tokyo Bay while landing at Haneda International Airport, killing 24 of the 166 passengers and crew on board, in February, 1982.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A spectator stretches to get a photo of President Gerald Ford, who was visiting the 1st Brigade, 3rd Armored Division's German-American family picnic in 1975.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Owners Jose Luis Manzano and Jose Garcia Castro talk about their Disco Pub Avion nightclub, a surplus Boeing C-97 Stratocruiser once used by the New York Air National Guard.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Fireworks explode behind the Tokyo Tower during the Tokyo Bay Fireworks Festival in 1996.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A large American flag ripples in the wind as Pfc. Dennis McCall of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit surveys war damage to local homes from the turret of an armored amphibious assault vehicle during a NATO Strategic Reserve Force exercise in Bosnia in 1998.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Soldiers gather at a house that's being demolished to expand the "no-man's land" on the Communist side of the Berlin Wall in November, 1961.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Hank Williams performs at Rhein-Main's Gateway Theater during a Grand Ole Opry tour of U.S. bases in West Germany's American zone in 1949.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Eddie Feigner, right, gets some last-minute guidance in locating home plate as he prepares to pitch blindfolded — one of his trademark routines —during The King and His Court's exhibition softball game against the Zama All-Stars in 1989.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Schoolchildren gather on a street near the home of Chiang Kai-shek in the suburbs of Taipei to offer the generalissimo their congratulations on his election to a fifth six-year term as president of Nationalist China in 1972.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Staff Sgt. Dallas A. Pinckney, center, watches as members of the 2nd Battle Group Honor Guard in Berlin pass rifles back and forth while practicing one of one of their complicated maneuvers in September, 1961.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Prince Charles sits in the cockpit of an SR-71 aircraft as U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Lee Shelton, left, and Maj. Russell Szczepanik explain the Blackbird's equipment during the heir to the British throne's first visit to a U.S. military installation in the U.K. in 198

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A Bosnian family rides high on the hay, after loading their horse-drawn cart with a recent harvest near Eagle Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1998.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Actress Marilyn Monroe poses for a photo in Tokyo, where she was honeymooning with baseball great Joe DiMaggio in February, 1954.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Spec. Kevin Sharp carries a newly-bought wicker chair and plant holder as his fellow soldiers at Camp Bedrock, Bosnia and Herzegovina, discuss his purchases in September, 1998.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Stoker stretches to provide a clean windshield for pilots of a heavy-lift transport helicopter aboard the USS Tarawa in 2003.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Soldiers from the 1st Logistical Command's 71st Transportation Battalion are pressed into service unloading military cargo from ship to shore after thousands of Saigon's stevedores walked off the job in a labor dispute in 1966.

Archive Photo of the Day

In 1995, fighting between Bosnian government troops and Bosnian Serbs was a nearby reality for these Brcko area residents standing in front of graffiti pointing the way to the war zone along the Posavina corridor.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A 7th Army crew begins fueling a Redstone missile with liquid oxygen during an exercise at Panzer Kasern in Stuttgart, West Germany in 1962.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

U.S. soldiers show Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower how they get through barbed wire during the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe's visit to the 547th Engineer Battalion in 1051.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Replacement troops from the 1st Infantry Division, having gotten the word about the importance of dental care and the proper use of a toothbrush, try out the Army's new "super-toothpaste" in Vietnam in 1968.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A pro-American crowd gathers at the Manila Hotel to greet President Lyndon Johnson upon his return from a summit meeting in 1966.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

President Ronald Reagan stands with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a photo session at Augustusburg Palace for leaders attending a three-day economic summit in 1985.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

At the U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl shakes hands with U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kevin D. Jiggetts, who was wounded in the Oct. 23, 1983 terrorist bombing of a barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Col. Levi Chase, commander of the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing, is interviewed in 1966 after returning from his 500th fighter mission of a military career that spanned three wars — World War II, Korea and Vietnam — and 25 years.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A "Flying Crane" helicopter delivers supplies to the Bu Dop Special Forces camp in Vietnam in December, 1967.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Academy Award-winning actor (and World War II Navy veteran) Ernest Borgnine learns about the Redeye missile launcher from Spec. 4 Eddie Chew, left, and Cpl. James Nangano of the 4th Battalion, 69th Armor, in 1979.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Betsy Billington, a cheerleader at Leghorn American High School at Camp Darby, Italy, makes a leap in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in 1966.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel, on the home stretch of an around-the-world trip highlighted by a series of exhibition games for the Yankees in Japan, takes to the airwaves at the AFN Radio studios in 1955.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

An F-15 Eagle from the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing takes off from Bitburg Air Base on a rainy night during a USAFE readiness exercise in 1979.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

The end of the last day of the school year finds lots of happy students at the elementary school in Babenhausen, West Germany, in 1959.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Bruce C. Clarke, who earned the Silver Star three times during World War II while leading the Fourth Armored Division of the Third Army, places flowers at the grave of his wartime commander, Gen. George S. Patton, at the Luxembourg American Cemetery in 1973.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A suspect glares at the photographer while being held at the Combined Holding and Interrogation Center, where Viet Cong sympathizers, draft dodgers and deserters are sorted out from the rest of the local population, in 1969.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Soldiers from the U.S. Army 8th Infantry Division's airborne component take part in the French government's torch-lighting ceremony at Utah Beach, one of many 1969 events marking the 25th anniversary of the Allied landings on D-Day.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Mt. Fuji provides the majestic backdrop as Marine Lance Cpl. Brandon York of the Combat Engineers Company, Combat Assault Battalion, pauses after shooting his way to his objective at the Camp Fuji training range.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Rep. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) admires a sword presented to him by residents of Yokoyama, Japan, during a visit to his ancestral home village.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Taking part in some international baseball shop talk at Tokyo's Chinzanso restaurant in 1956 are, left to right, outfielder Duke Snider and catcher Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Takehiko Bessho of Japan's Yomiuri Giants and Don Newcombe of the Dodgers.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

An artillery forward observer walks along a path through tall cacti in a lesser-seen area of South Vietnam in 1967.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A U.S. Marine takes aim at the enemy from a storefront during the fierce, monthlong battle for Hue.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Soldiers from 4th Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment play a game of "Saudi ball" to ease stress and occupy some of their free time in the Saudi Arabian desert in February, 1991.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Two days after the Berlin Wall was opened to end 28 years of division of the city, an elated East German leans out and waves to the crowd as his car crosses the border at a key checkpoint between East and West in 1989.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

President John F. Kennedy and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ride together after JFK's arrival at Wahn Airport in Bonn in June, 1963.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A color guard stands watch over the helmets, rifles, boots and dogtags of fallen Task Force 1-18 soldiers Capt. John "Hans" Kurth and Spc. Jason Ford before a memorial service in Tikrit, Iraq, in March, 2004.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Children place flowers at the graves of "adopted" fallen servicemembers during a Dutch-American Memorial Day ceremony attended by more than 8,000 people at the American military cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands, in 1966.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Soldiers from the 432nd Engineer Construction Battalion watch Gen. William M. Hoge, USAREUR commander-in-chief, take a ceremonial swing on the last spike of a three-mile rail spur from Kaiserslautern's main station to Panzer Casern in 1954.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower talks to reporters after a farewell meeting with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in May, 1952.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Actor Roger Moore meets with reporters during a promotional tour for his latest film, "Gold," in 1974.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

From his vantage point at the radio relay station atop 3,200-foot Nui Ba Den mountain, 1st Lt. John Lowe of Columbus, Ohio, an artillery officer with 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, spends his day calling in artillery strikes on the surrounding flatlands and hills.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., on a worldwide tour of U.S. installations before taking over as Chief of Naval Operations, ponders a question during a press conference in Stuttgart, West Germany, in 1970.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Sundays at the famed Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park are known for their variety of verbal offerings, but some people add emphasis through signs. This visitor was intent on showing his support for both British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the United States.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer listen as a Vietnamese village elder tells them of Viet Cong activity in the strategic hamlet of Ben Tuong, 50 miles north of Saigon in 1962.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A militiaman from the Khyber Rifles stands guard at the famed Khyber Pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan in 1958.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A soldier displays a confident message during a helicopter assault by the 25th Infantry Division just south of the Ho Bo Woods.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Mrs. Olga Ruhlow called Stars and Stripes to say that she thought the family dog — a 5½-year-old boxer named Bruno — bore a striking resemblance to a tough first sergeant when dressed in Army togs, and would make a good subject for a photo.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Gen. Paul D. Harkins, commanding general of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Command, Thailand and Vietnam, shakes hands with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem during opening ceremonies for the new airfield at Tan Son Nhut, outside Saigon, in 1962.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

The bridge crew of the USS Canberra directs fire as the cruiser's guns open up on enemy targets in Vietnam in 1968.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A USS Forrestal catapult switch operator ducks as an F4 Phantom jet makes its two-second run up to 150 mph during the carrier's eighth Mediterranean deployment in 1970.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

An American servicemember in the Saudi desert tends a burning trash pit.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Arleigh A. Burke gets a Marine's-eye view of a landing operation on Okinawa as he questions Cpl. Richard Greer of Pueblo, Colo.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Pilots gather around the scoreboard during the first annual U.S. Air Forces in Europe gunnery meet in Libya in 1955.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

When U.S. Marines came ashore in Turkey during NATO's Exercise Deep Water in the Gulf of Saros in 1957, their modern-day vehicles were temporarily forced to conform to the pace of a more traditional convoy.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A Korean boy in a village about 30 miles northeast of Seoul covers his ears as a tank from the 2nd Medium Tank Battalion, 40th Armor, 7th Infantry Division fires its 90mm guns.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Staff Sgt. Tom Orland, a tower watch supervisor with the 401st Expeditionary Air Base Group, handles air traffic control duties at Tuzla Air Base in 1997.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Art Linkletter, host of the popular "House Party" television show, talks with Dawn Lemire, daughter of Senior Master Sgt. and Mrs. Donald Lemire, during a 1967 visit to the USAFE Hospital in Wiesbaden.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Ron March of NWAC and Harold Wilson of Northwest Army Trps. both fall out of the ring during their featherweight division bout at the U.S. Army Europe northern regional boxing championships.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Fifty years later, a rusted barge is one of the few remaining reminders of the D-Day invasion of France on the sand at Omaha Beach.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Actor Mark Hamill, famous for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars," poses with a couple of students in a hallway of his alma mater, Nile C. Kinnick High School in 1978.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Former Vice President Richard Nixon looks over a copy of Stars and Stripes as he waits to meet with former Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi at Kishi's office in the Nisseki Building.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Army Spcs. Sharon V. Smith and Jesse Cross, assigned to the 593rd Supply Co. out of Kaiserslautern, Germany, count water canisters as part of Operation Provide Comfort to aid Kurdish refugees.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Spc. Victor Buller's doorway barber shop at "Tent City 2" lacks amenities like opinionated locals and old copies of "Police Gazette," but for Spc. David Parker, it will have to do.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A Wiesbaden store owner acted on a suggestion by his nephew, a U.S. military policeman stationed in Kaiserslautern, and built this storefront that was soon written about in publications around the world.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A 101st Airborne Division soldier in a helicopter keeps an eye out for Viet Cong in the A Shau Valley below during Operation Somerset Plain in 1968.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Two weeks after the seizure of the USS Pueblo by North Korea in 1968, armored personnel carriers from the 2nd Infantry Division line up in a frozen rice paddy near Freedom Bridge at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Four helmetless children packed onto a motorcycle would probably invite serious legal problems for their father in most cities today, but on the crowded streets of Saigon in 1970 such sights were common.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

In October, 1956, employees of the Battelle Research Institute operate the massive new UNIVAC 1, the world's first commercial computer, which was making its European debut at Frankfurt after being flown across the Atlantic two months earlier.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

U.S. Army soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Co., 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry learn how to drink water while wearing protective clothing during 8th Infantry Division NBC (nuclear, biological or chemical warfare) training in 1976.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter looms over soldiers preparing for action during Operation Pegasus, a 20,000-man effort to relieve Marines at the beleaguered combat base at Khe Sanh.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Lt. Gen. Victor H. "Brute" Krulak, left, commanding general of Fleet Marines Force Pacific, is welcomed to Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, by Col. Elmer E. Brackett Jr. in April, 1964.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Actress Marilyn Monroe poses with Pfc. John Fenesy of Caldwell, N.J., left, and Cpl. Dick Armstrong of Williston Park, N.Y., at the 3rd Division airstrip in Korea in 1954.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Robert Vogeler gets a hug from his wife, Lucille, as he gains his freedom after 527 days in captivity in Hungary in April, 1951.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Guards patrol on the western side of the Brandenburg Gate on a tense night only a few weeks after the Berlin Wall was put in place, dividing the city of Berlin for the next 28 years.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Comedian Vaughn Meader does his finger-jabbing imitation of President John F. Kennedy during an interview on his return to Germany, where he served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1957.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Texas National Guardsmen with 3rd Battalion, 133rd Field Artillery, 36th Infantry Division get some water time aboard a 28-foot speedboat, one of four the Army plans to use to patrol the Tigris River.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

The once-vibrant but now war-scarred Unter den Linden in Berlin's Eastern sector is quiet as soldiers await the arrival of a motorcade during a foreign ministers' conference in 1954.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

Tokyo transit workers salute the end of an era as the last Hanadensha floral streetcar goes out of service after 62 years, to be replaced by buses.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

While awaiting a helicopter flight to Tachikawa Air Base, where a crowd of 8,000 Air Force personnel gathered for his show, Sammy Davis Jr. tries out one of Japan's more popular products.

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY

ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAY