Malaga, Spain, July 1965: Actor Anthony Quinn during a break in the filming of “The Centurions” (later released as “Lost Command”), in which Quinn stars as Pierre Raspeguy, a French paratrooper fighting in Indochina and Algeria in the 1950s.
South Korea, August 1957: Spc. Paul W. Sebesky prepares a leg cast at the 121st Evacuation Hospital.
How did Southern California wind up so … Southern? Well, the Butterfield stagecoach routes ran from Texas through Arizona and New Mexico into L.A., and people heading west brought enslaved Black men and women with them, to the gold fields and, after the gold played out, throughout the state.
Kutno, Poland, July 23, 2003: The Stars and Stripes waves over the stands during the final game of the Little League Baseball’s Trans-Atlantic regional playoffs.
Justin Taylan, director of the nonprofit search-and-recovery organization Pacific Wrecks, is preparing to lead a team to Papua New Guinea to locate one of the most famous aircraft from World War II: a P-38 named Marge flown by ace fighter pilot Richard Bong.
The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Irving R. Newman, killed in action in 1943, were buried with full military honors Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
The mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls a decade ago in Nigeria marked a new era of fear in Africa’s most populous country. Since the Chibok abductions in April 2014, at least 1,500 students have been kidnapped, as armed groups increasingly find in them a lucrative way to fund other crimes.
West Germany, October 1951: A farmer with an ox-drawn cart passes a jeep parked in the shade of a tree during Exercise Combine in the Rhine Valley.
A puzzling object resembling an aircraft fuselage washed up on a Cape Cod beach, and historians say closer inspection has revealed it’s an artifact linked to military training during the Cold War.
Tokyo, Japan, 1954: Artist Shel Silverstein checks a pre-press plate before it is printed, along with Pacific Stars and Stripes staff at the Hardy Barracks building.
Veterans of Camp Pendleton’s 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines gathered over the weekend at Park Semper Fi in San Clemente to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Ramadi and remember 33 fallen troops.
Arab Jabour district, Iraq, July 5, 2007: Pvt. Erik Stroehlein, 22, of Bennington, Vt., holds a light for Capt. Eric Melloh, 30, of Huntsville, Texas, during the search of the home of a man suspected of helping insurgents direct mortar fire at Forward Operating Base Murray southeast of Baghdad.
Somewhere in the Saudi Arabian desert, 1991: An American service member tends a burning trash pit.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwandans on Sunday commemorated 30 years since an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists.
The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Irving R. Newman, killed in action in 1943, will be interred Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Camp Comanche, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 2000: During an eerie, foggy Bosnian morning, more than 400 runners participated in an overseas version of the Army 10-Miler.
On July 28, 1942, U.S. Army Sgt. George Frank Bishop died at the Japanese Cabanatuan POW Camp in the Philippines. Bishop’s body was buried with thousands of others in one of the camp’s mass graves. Bishop’s remains were identified in June 2023, and he is to be buried in Washington state in May.
Elyria native and 2nd Lt. Ferrier White, a Tuskegee Airman who lost his life during World War II, was honored April 5 with a street sign at the corner of South Maple Street and Oberlin Road in Elyria, exactly 79 years after this death.
Frankfurt, West Germany, January 1989: Nine-year-old Angela Duke concentrates on creating the perfect bubble-gum bubble during an after-school contest at the McNair Kaserne housing area.