From the Stars and Stripes archives: a student at Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station in Japan flies high in the air after jumping off a ramp — performing what skaters call an acid drop — at the base’s skateboard park, Dec. 12, 2000.

Army Pvt. Erwin Schopp was part of the Headquarters Battery, 59th Coastal Artillery Regiment when he died in the Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippines in 1943. About 80 years later, his remains are returning home to Nebraska.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Walter and Gracie Stafford-Lantz — the creator and the voice respectively of Woody Woodpecker — visited school children at the Seoul American School in South Korea, Dec. 4, 1969.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A marine of G Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division gunner sits atop his mud-crusted track vehicle, South of Da Nang, South Vietnam, Nov. 25, 1968.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Visitors try to find some shade under the wing of an aircraft during the Fukuoka Airport Festival held in the last days of September 1959. 

The Union gunboat USS Picket spent much of the past 163 years buried in mud in the Tar River. But up to 7 feet of riverbed has been scoured away, excavating parts of the uniquely built ship not seen since it sank in 1862.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A view from inside a Dutch Chinook as another Dutch Chinook prepares to taxi the runway at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Sept. 8, 2015.

The National Park Service is temporarily suspending advance reservations for tours of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor scheduled past Sept. 3 due to ongoing preservation work to the popular tourist site.

A mysterious object spotted on the South Pacific seafloor has been identified as the bow of a torpedoed World War II ship that famously sailed hundreds of miles backwards to avoid sinking.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A Lithuanian soldier observes artillery fire from inside a camouflaged enclosure during Operation Dynamic Front in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Mar. 8, 2017.