(Jack Muhlenbeck/Stars and Stripes)

Camp Casey, December 1958: The hilltop home of Pfc. Teddy Arnold (left) and Spc. 5 John Copas gets an added touch — a barbecue pit. Despite the cold December temperatures, they figured warmer weather was just a few months away.

The two 7th Division service members — at Camp Casey on temporary duty assignment — were responsible for supplying the TV signal for Camp Casey and Camp Hovey. While staying at the station, they ate with the 13th Engineer Battalion, which was at the bottom of the hill about a quarter of a mile away — that is, when they did not throw some meat on the grill.

Read about Arnold and Copas’ day-to-day life on “TV Hill” in the Dec. 18, 1958, article that accompanied this photo.

Pictured here is a scan of the original 1958 print created by Stars and Stripes Pacific’s photo department to run in the print newspaper. The red marks indicate the crop lines. Only the bottom part of the image would appear in the newspaper. As all pre-1964 Stars and Stripes Pacific negatives and slides were unwittingly destroyed by poor temporary storage in 1963, the prints developed from the late 1940s through 1963 are the only images left of Stripes’ news photography from those decades. Stars and Stripes’ archives team is scanning these prints to ensure their preservation.