Ash, smoke and mayhem descended onto Clark Air Base when nearby Mount Pinatubo erupted three decades ago in the Philippines.

Bob Hope is such an institution he seems more like a character from American literature or folklore — in a class with Huckleberry Finn or Paul Bunyan.

Over Kosovo, June, 1999: U.S. Marine Cpl. Jason Poracky takes in the view of the Yugoslav province of Kosovo from the back of a CH-46 helicopter.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency suggested the unprecedented step of disinterring the Arizona crew and re-interring them, unidentified, back on the sunken battleship in Pearl Harbor.

June 25-28 the museum will exhibit the Traveling Korean Memorial on the Museum’s Parade Field. The memorial consists of 19 soldiers walking through a Korean rice paddy, and has four statistical signs, a sign requesting silence, and a sign reading “The Forgotten War.

Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, February, 2001: DOD civilian Bill Kirk, left, and Sgt. 1st Class Frank Mackall of the 603rd Aviation Support Battalion dine at the “Hunter” restaurant.

Lyle Reab's remains were interred in the family plot — relocated from an unknown soldier grave in Ardennes American Cemetery at Neupré, Belgium — and placed alongside those of his parents, Willis Harry and Daisy, in the cemetery.

Frankfurt, Germany, August, 1948: Mildred Gillars, left, also known as “Axis Sally,” leaves for Washington to face the music.

Taszar Air Base, Hungary, January, 1996: U.S. service members on their way to Bosnia are kept warm in their tent by gas heaters, following some uncomfortable conditions in the early stages of the mission.

January, 1996: The massive tent city that serves as a temporary home for most of the U.S. troops on their way to Bosnia is nearly complete.