Music composed by Auschwitz prisoners during the Holocaust will finally see the light of day. “Orchestras of Auschwitz” will feature four of the more than 200 pieces discovered in 2015 by conductor-composer Leo Geyer when he visited the death camp in formerly Nazi Germany-occupied Poland.
Somewhere in Iraq, February 1991: Iraqi prisoners of war are checked after their surrender to American troops from Iron Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
Laumersheim, Germany, Dec. 15, 2012: Volunteers carry a piece of metal recovered from the site of a World War II plane crash outside Laumersheim.
As president, Thomas Jefferson intentionally axed a long American tradition of thanksgiving.
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Bagram Airfield, Aghanistan, Nov. 26, 2015: American soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division eat a Thanksgiving Day meal.
Joe Biden was leaving a college class. The Soviet ambassador was in a dentist’s chair. Fidel Castro was at lunch. Kennedy’s death 60 years ago shocked them all.
Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, Sept. 10, 2003: Quick Reactionary Force soldiers load onto a Chinook at the flight line.
The story of the American military’s troop newspapers in World War II has faded like old newsprint in the eight decades since that war was fought. But at their peak as many as 4,600 individual newspapers were in circulation around the world.
International Tracing Service knifes red tape in search for children seized by the Germans.
![Esslingen, West Germany, Sep. 27, 1952: Clerks and investigators search through row upon row upon row of records in the massive factory-floor-turned records room of the International Tracing Service's offices in Esslingen, in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Signs marking the records from the various Nazi concentration camps can be seen in the back.
Searching through the Child Search master index of some 204,000 cards which include 70,750 birth certificates the investigators search for non-German children separated from their families during the war in an effort to reunite them with their families.
Read Stars and Stripes' article on the post-war efforts of reunification by the ITS here.
The International Tracing Service morphed into the Arolsen Archives and its staff continues the work of their 1950s colleagues began. “The Arolsen Archives are committed to preserving their unique collection of documents on Nazi persecution and to making them accessible worldwide. We search for the traces of victims and survivors of the National Socialist terror regime and, even today, we are still helping to reunite families torn apart by the Holocaust, the persecution of minorities and forced labor.”
For more information about the organization, its archives, and work, visit their website.[https://arolsen-archives.org/]](https://www.stripes.com/incoming/sfo1ix-sse04989xn001.jpg/alternates/LANDSCAPE_560/SSE04989Xn001.jpg)
Esslingen, West Germany, Sept. 27, 1952: Clerks and investigators search through row upon row upon row of records in the massive factory floor-turned-records room of the International Tracing Service’s offices.
Just days before his 1963 assassination, JFK spared the life of a 55-pound broad white tom, part of a long and odd history of American presidents and turkeys.
Yokota Air Base, Japan, Aug. 1, 2006: Staff Sgt. Edwin Mena of the 374th Logistics Readiness Squadron pulls security beside a Humvee with other airmen while learning convoy-ambush survival tactics.
Ramstein Air Base, Germany, June 20, 2015: Sgt. 1st Class James Browning of Company C, 3rd Combined Arms Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, watches an Air Force C-5 transport plane taxi.
Tangi Valley, Afghanistan, Nov. 7, 2009: Soldiers with 3rd Platoon, Company A, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment set off from Combat Outpost Tangi en route to the site of a discovered roadside bomb.
Yongdong-po, South Korea, Oct. 1958: Master Sgt. William J. Ward of the 13th Quartermaster Battalion holds a coffee pot and a clip board as he checks the inventory.
Petrovec, Macedonia, March 28, 1998: A Finnish officer shouts instructions as Americans test fire Finnish rifles during a live-fire exercise near Skopje airport.
Qayyaray West Airfield, Iraq, Jan. 5, 1991: Soldiers with the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division prepare to board the Big Blue Bus to Freedom.
Three times a month, Capt. Earle Yeamans and his assistant, Spec. 5 Richard Ackley, hoist their 600-pound portable dentist’s office aboard a helicopter and head for the boonies — to add electric drills and evil looking picks to the infantryman’s normal ration of combat grief.
Di An Base, Vietnam, Oct. 14, 1968: An 1st Infantry Division soldier opens wide for his dental treatment.