Two MLB pitchers from Japan — one with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the other with the San Diego Padres — will face off in the playoffs starting this weekend. Both players can trace their baseball lineage to Japanese pitching legend Eiji Sawamura, who was killed fighting U.S. forces during World War II. 

Grafenwoehr Parade Ground, Germany, June 3, 1950: Members of the reviewing party come to attention as the colors are paraded past the reviewing stand.

The former president’s time as a naval officer was honored Tuesday in Plains, Ga., when four U.S. Navy Super Hornets conducted a flyover to celebrate his 100th birthday.

Saigon, South Vietnam, October 1969: Unidentified person hands out boxes of Jujyfruits candy to local Vietnamese children in Saigon.

Hermann Goering at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, as sketched by Stars and Stripes artist Don “Shep” Sheppard on Oct. 1, 1946, the day the verdict was read in court.

Munich, Germany, July 1961: Munich city lantern ward Wilhelm Schuepfer lights a gas street light.

Berlin, August 13, 1990: A souvenir-seeking tourist attempts to pull an iron rod loose from the dwindling remnants of the Berlin Wall. In the background at left is the Reichstag, the soon-to-be legislative center of a reunited Germany.

Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Jun. 7, 2016: Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, 503rd Infantry Regiment rest before a C-130 flight at Ramstein Air Base.

Masamitsu Yoshioka, who was widely acknowledged as the last remaining witness to the Pearl Harbor attack from the side of the Imperial Japanese forces, died last month at the age of 106. As a bombardier, he launched a torpedo during the attack that hit the battleship USS Utah where 58 men lost their lives. “I think of the people who died because of me,” he said.

Fulbourn, England, Sep. 12, 2008: Chloe and Sonny, both 3, zoom down the slide at Cheeky Monkeys in Fulbourn.