(Gus Schuettler/Stars and Stripes)

Berlin, October 1961: American airmen from the RAF Wethersfield football team, sightseeing while in town for a game against the Berlin Bears, toe a line marking the border between East and West as they view the Berlin Wall from the Friedrichstrasse.

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