From the Stars and Stripes archives: A Marine sqaud automatic machine gunner takes cover behind a drop-off on the edge of a road during a raid at Al Fahr, Iraq on March 29, 2003.

Dozens of veterans and their supporters gathered Thursday afternoon at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, which marked the end of the Vietnam War.

U.S. Army Pvt. Willard D. Merrill, 21, was serving in the 2nd Observation Squadron in late 1941 when the Japanese army invaded the Philippines. He endured the Bataan Death March and later died at the Cabanatuan POW camp.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Flowers grow out of traditional Dutch wooden shoes at a display at Keukenhof gardens in Lisse, Netherlands on March 20, 2008.

The remains of two U.S. Army Air Forces soldiers killed during World War II, Sgt. R. L. Tyler and Staff Sgt. Hubert Yeary, have returned home for burial.

A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s still fully armed with an 83-year-old bomb fixed to the wing, NOAA Ocean Exploration says.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A makeup artist preps singer and actress Eartha Kitt backstage at the London Palladium on Nov. 13, 1958, for her appearance on Britain’s “Sunday Night at the Palladium” show.

A remotely operated camera recently explored the sunken aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and discovered a large mural known only by reputation.

A Virginia real estate agent is close to finishing a self-appointed mission aimed at collecting enough DNA to meet the threshold for exhuming dozens of unknown Pearl Harbor victims who were serving aboard the USS Arizona.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Cheryl Greenwood, one of the teenagers learning hair dressing at the Teen Haven Charm School conducted for youngsters at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa in October 1957.

Defying all logic, a vehicle has been found parked in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk in the Pacific by a Japanese submarine during World War II.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: a visitor moves through a garden of 540 stone statues of Buddha’s disciples at the Kitain temple in Kawagoe, Japan, May 18, 2019.

The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Joe A. De Jarnette will be interred Saturday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Erlanger, Ky. He was killed in action April 8, 1944, at age 24, after his B-24H “Liberator” was shot down over Germany.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Two children look unhappy to put all their eggs in one shared box during the annual Easter Egg hunt in Frankfurt, Germany, Apr. 17, 1949.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: sanding wood and applying a special plaster, these orphans are learning lacquerware manufacture, a centuries-old profession, in Seoul, South Korea, January 1959.

Here’s a look at the past and present of some notable Grafenwoehr locations.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: fading winter sunlight silhouettes Siberian swans at a small lake in the community of Shimoda, six miles south of Misawa Air Base, Japan, on Jan. 8, 2001.

U.S. Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, more than 80 years after he died as a POW during World War II, was laid to rest with full military honors Tuesday at Miramar National Cemetery in San Diego.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A man looks into the window of a radio repair shop in London on Nov. 13, 1958.