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Sir Edmund Hillary, 1960

Tokyo International Airport, Japan, Dec. 10, 1960: Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer, addresses gathered journalists at Tokyo International Airport, Dec. 10, 1960.

About to be on the air, 1964

Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, July 7, 1964: Cameraman A1C Andrew M. Davaca from Canton, Ohio, focuses on graphics to be used in AFTV Channel 3’s programming.



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Army trucks ready for sale, 2005

Livorno, Italy, April 8, 2005: U.S. Army trucks from previous wars are stored outdoors at Field Support Battalion-Livorno, Italy, until they are sold to other governments.

Exercise Sea Breeze 2018

Mykolaiv region, Ukraine, July 14, 2018: U.S. and Ukrainian Marines provide security near a Ukrainian BTR-80 armored transporter during a company-level attack at the land portion of Exercise Sea Breeze.

Seeger and Springsteen, 2009

Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 2009: Folk music legend Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen team up to sing “This Land is Your Land” during President Obama’s Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, held two days before the actual inauguration on Jan. 20.

Ramstein claims the crown, 2003

Baumholder, Germany, Nov. 1, 2003: Ramstein football players celebrate their 7-6 victory over Wiesbaden in the DODDS Division I Football Championship game in Baumholder, Germany.

Food convoy in Mogadishu, 1993

Mogadishu, Somalia, Jan. 3, 1993: A U.S. Marine guarding the gate to the port in Mogadishu loses his temper with a Somali trucker hauling grain donated by relief organizations.

Loudspeakers aimed at East Berlin, 1963

Berlin, September 1963: When the government of East Berlin used loudspeakers to drown out a speech by West German President Heinrich Luebke in the western sector of the city, retaliation came in the form of a mobile unit equipped with clusters of even more powerful speakers.

Rising floodwaters, 1954

West Germany, July 12, 1954: Floodwaters, rising to the second story of buildings in this town, left more than 50,000 people homeless along the Danube, Isar and Inn rivers.

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