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.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A new sign post proclaims Lukavac base camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina as Camp Punxsutawney, a reference to the movie Groundhog Day because every day seemed the same, Feb. 2, 1996.

Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: An unidentified mud-covered cavalryman tries to clean his M16 during a sweep operation through Que Son Valley, South Vietnam, Jan. 20, 1968.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: The front page of the Pacific Stars and Stripes edition for July 27, 1953, announcing the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement, ending three years of fighting of the Korean War. 

These vignettes of military life at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in 1949, taken by Stars and Stripes photographer Gerald Waller, are believed to never have been published before.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Bakers at the Grafenwoehr Training Area’s bakery weigh and roll dough, creating perfectly uniform loaves, Grafenwoehr, Germany, April 9, 1949.