Archive photo of the day

Alllll the cameras, 1958

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A Stripes photographer uses three different lenses and two types of cameras to capture a variety of images to illustrate the dangerous streets of Tokyo, August 1958.

Fukuoka Parade, 1960

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Japanese women in traditional dress carry lanterns advertising the Fukuoka Night Club on Kyushu Island, Japan, October 1960.

Hed: Catch 'm when you can, 2003

Highway 1, Iraq, Mar. 22, 2003: Spc. Stacy Miller of the Illesheim-based 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment grabs a few winks as the convoy of 11th Aviation Regiment units stops along Highway 1, near An Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. There were few opportunities for soldiers to sleep during the three-day trip from Camp Udairi, Kuwait, to 11th Aviation's new base in central Iraq, so they slept where and when they could.

Read the story on the convoy here.
https://www.stripes.com/history/2003-03-30/on-the-road-to-baghdad-1498960.html1

META TAGS: Operation Iraqi Freedom; Wars on Terror; U.S. Army;

Catch them when you can, 2003

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Spc. Stacy Miller of the Illesheim-based 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment grabs a few winks as the convoy of 11th Aviation Regiment units stops along Highway 1, near An Nasiriyah in southern Iraq on March 22, 2003.

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Checking the paper, 1956

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.

Anybody home, 2007

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.

Ramen break on the City Desk, 1955

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

A black and white photo of a meat section at a commissary, with two women standing in front of a counter.

Meat counter at the commissary, 1948

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.

Nazis quit, 1945

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.

Ensuring final honors for all, 2012

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.

Nuts! 2002

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.