Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 19, 2003: At Baghdad International Airport, soldiers from the 1st Armored Division pull maintenance on part of the Firefinder radar system, which can pinpoint from where enemy mortar or artillery is being fired.
Its arms aren’t tired. Kirtland Air Force Base is the home of a record-holding, long-flying aircraft. The UH-1N Huey reached the impressive milestone on March 18 — 20,000 flight hours.
Dozens stood in the steady rain last week to pay final respects to a man they never knew. Navy Fireman 1st Class Walter F. Schleiter died aboard the USS Oklahoma in 1941 before many of them were even born. More than 82 years later, he made it home.
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 Los Angeles, 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.
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.
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.