Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, Oct. 4, 1971: A member of the Army ground crew at Tay Ninh loads rockets onto a Cobra helicopter during an effort to combat stepped-up communist activity near the Cambodian border.

Sinjar, Iraq, Dec. 12, 2003: Combat engineers with Company C, 326th Engineering Battalion, attached to the 101st Airborne Division, take photos from a safe distance of their controlled detonation of grenades and mortars.

Tahoua, Niger, June 15, 2005: A Green Beret staff sergeant, right, from 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group teaches foot-patrol tactics to Nigerien soldiers in Tahoua, Niger.

Babenhausen, Germany, 1959: The end of the last day of the school year finds lots of happy students at the elementary school in Babenhausen, the overseas home of the 36th Artillery Group.

Somewhere in South Korea, July 1958: Charging a dummy representing the enemy, Sgt. Roger G. Cee of Salt Lake City routs the “opponent” out of his foxhole.

Suresnes, France, Sept. 13, 1952: Soldiers from the 18th Infantry Regiment take part in a dedication ceremony at the military cemetery at Suresnes, just outside of Paris.

Sadr City, Iraq, June 6, 2008: Soldiers from 1st Platoon, “C” Company, Task Force 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, exit an industrial building after conducting a search in the southern portion of Sadr City.

Yokota High School, Japan, June 8, 2005: Yokota High School senior class president Jamie Monahan, left, takes a picture of a friend receiving a diploma during the school’s graduation ceremony at Fussa City Civic Hall.

Frankfurt, Germany, October 1957: Actress Jayne Mansfield signs the cast of young Roger Perkins, one of the hundreds of fans who gathered at the Frankfurt Football Stadium, Oct. 5, 1957.

Nui Ba Den, Vietnam, Oct. 14, 1969: Soldiers atop Black Virgin Mountain (Nui Ba Den) cover their ears as they fire off a mortar at Viet Cong positions lower down the mountain.

Nürburg, Germany, June 6, 2003: Metal fans flash the “devil’s horn” at Rock am Ring 2002.

Besmaya training site, Iraq, April 26, 2015: U.S. Army advisers run to safety after lighting tires for realistic effects during an Iraqi army exercise at Besmaya, a coalition training site south of Baghdad.

Tokyo, 1960: George Rosenblatt and Leo Kuehnen take a photograph of a Japanese woman holding up her parasol.

Saint-Avold, France, May 20, 1971: A visitor to the Lorraine American Cemetery near Saint-Avold walks between the graves of some of the 10,481 American war dead buried there.

“5 U.S. Army Nurses Become First Allied Women to Land,” read the headline accompanying this photo in Stars and Stripes’ London edition, June 12, 1944.

Front page of the Northern Ireland edition of Stars and Stripes on June 6, 1944, announcing D-Day.

Picauville, France, June 5, 2014: Balloons carrying the names of U.S. soldiers who died during the D-Day invasion were released at a 70th anniversary D-Day commemoration at the Ninth Air Force Memorial.

Landing Zone Mack, South Vietnam, Oct. 9, 1966: A Marine hit on the head and back by grenade shrapnel receives medical attention from a Navy corpsman, about 50 yards from the top of Hill 484, also known as LZ Mack.

Frankfurt, Germany, June 3, 2002: From left, Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé Knowles and Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child during an interview with Stars and Stripes and AFN in Frankfurt.