Mediterranean Sea, August, 1975: Precision parking was a priority on the tightly-packed flight deck of the USS Forrestal. After the planes zoomed in for a landing, they were fitted, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, into a tight pattern. The Forrestal had recently been redesignated as multi-purpose aircraft carrier CV 59 (from attack aircraft carrier CVA 59). Looking for Stars and Stripes’ historic coverage? Subscribe to Stars and Stripes’ historic newspaper archive! We have digitized our 1948-1999 European and Pacific editions, as well as several of our WWII editions and made them available online through https://starsandstripes.newspaperarchive.com/ META TAGS: USS Forrestal; U.S. Navy; aircraft carrier; flight deck; Europe;
Tightly packed flight deck, 1975

Mediterranean Sea, August 1975: Precision parking was a priority on the tightly packed flight deck of the USS Forrestal.

Berlin, October, 1961: American airmen from the RAF Wethersfield football team, sightseeing while in town for a game against the Berlin Bears, toe a line marking the border between East and West as they view the Berlin Wall from the Friedrichstrasse. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ historic coverage? Subscribe to Stars and Stripes’ historic newspaper archive! We have digitized our 1948-1999 European and Pacific editions, as well as several of our WWII editions and made them available online through https://starsandstripes.newspaperarchive.com/ META TAGS: Black History Month; African American; Honor Guard; U.S. Army;
Toe the line, 1961

Berlin, October 1961: American airmen from the RAF Wethersfield football team, sightseeing while in town for a game against the Berlin Bears, toe a line marking the border between East and West as they view the Berlin Wall from the Friedrichstrasse.

Naples, Italy, Feb. 1976: Hull technician Deano Marchese works on a high-pressure steam line aboard the guided missile cruiser Little Rock in the Mediterranean. Marchese and 12 other men of the Little Rock's Main Propulsion Repair team who worked below decks were known as "snipes" — and said they were proud to carry the nickname. Read the original article on the guided missile cruiser Little Rock here: https://www.stripes.com/news/little-rock-s-snipes-are-proud-of-their-role-in-keeping-missile-cruiser-operating-1.69624 META DATA: U.S. Navy; sailor; USS Little Rock; welder; welding
Under pressure, 1976

Naples, Italy, Feb. 1976: Hull technician Deano Marchese works on a high-pressure steam line aboard the guided missile cruiser Little Rock in the Mediterranean.

Friedberg, Germany, Feb. 20, 1960: Elvis Presley laughs as he gives interviews at the Ray Barracks, shortly before being discharged from the U.S. Army and leaving Germany. The singer was with the 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32d Armor, in Friedberg. Want to read Stars and Stripes’ interviews with other artists in Europe and the Pacific? Subscribe to Stars and Stripes’ historic newspaper archive! We have digitized our 1948-1999 European and Pacific editions, as well as several of our WWII editions and made them available online through https://starsandstripes.newspaperarchive.com/ METATAGS: Europe; West Germany; music; entertainment; rock and roll; Elvis Presley; singer; entertainer; Army; military service; actor
All shook up in Germany, 1960

Friedberg, Germany, Feb. 20, 1960: Elvis Presley laughs as he gives interviews at the Ray Barracks, shortly before being discharged from the U.S. Army and leaving Germany.

Andorra la Vella, Andorra, Sep. 1962: A car and its driver maneuver through the narrow streets in Andorra la Vella, Andorra, careful not to hit the people to the right of him or the goods to the left. Nestled in the Pyrenees mountains and close to the Spanish border, the city is the capital of the small Principality of Andorra. The tax-free principality is a shopping haven for many tourists flocking from neighboring Spain and France. Check out Stars and Stripes' Europe Community site for travel articles on Andorra [https://europe.stripes.com/search/node?search-results=andorra] METATAGS: Europe; Andorra; city; street; tourism; culture; locals; Andorrans; tourists; automobile
Down a narrow street, 1962

Andorra la Vella, Andorra, September 1962: A driver maneuvers through the narrow streets in Andorra la Vella, careful not to hit the people to the right of him or the goods to the left.

Fuerth, Germany, December 15, 1975: U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stands on the steps of Fuerth's City Theater with his mother, Paula and father, Louis by his side. Kissinger's brother Walter (l) and the Fuerth's Lord Mayor Kurt Scherzer stand in the row behind them. Kissinger visited his former hometown in Germany to receive the city's highest reward - the Golden Citizen's Medallion - for his efforts to achieve peace in the world. The Kissinger family left the Bavarian town in 1938 after Mr. Kissinger's father, Louis Kissinger was forced to quit his job as Jews were barred from teaching positions across Germany. The elder Kissinger, his wife and two children fled to the United States. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ historic coverage? Subscribe to Stars and Stripes’ historic newspaper archive! We have digitized our 1948-1999 European and Pacific editions, as well as several of our WWII editions and made them available online through https://starsandstripes.newspaperarchive.com/ META TAGS: Europe; West Germany; German American relations; diplomacy; Jewish history; diplomacy; foreign relations; dignitaries; ceremony
Henry Kissinger in Germany, 1975

Fuerth, Germany, Dec. 15, 1975: U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stands on the steps of Fuerth’s City Theater with his mother, Paula and father, Louis by his side.

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Paul R. Stein (top) and Chief Warrant Officer 2 David M. Conboy perform a pre-flight inspection of their Apache helicopter before departing for the Middle East by way of Italy. Gus Schuettler, Stars and Stripes Wiesbaden, Germany, August 30, 1990
Pre-flight inspection, 1990

Wiesbaden, Germany, Aug. 30, 1990: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Paul R. Stein (top) and Chief Warrant Officer 2 David M. Conboy perform a pre-flight inspection of their Apache helicopter before departing for the Middle East by way of Italy.

October is American Archives Month! To celebrate, Stars and Stripes Archives and Library is sharing some “behind the scenes” images of Stripes’ operations, its staff and its archives throughout the paper’s eight decades of existence. Since 2004 the small (but mighty!) archives staff has worked to make more of our historic content available online. We have digitized our 1948 – 1999 European and Pacific editions, as well as several of our WWII editions and made them available online through http://starsandstripes.newspaperarchive.com/ In 2014 we focused our efforts on the preservation and digitization of our vast photo archives and have been slowly but steadily digitizing negatives, slides and prints - mainly concentrating on those with preservation issues. Stars and Stripes photo department, Griesheim,Germany, Feb. 12, 1960: Digitizing images from Stars and Stripes' vast photo collections means we occasionally find shots at the end of a roll of film, or two entire rolls of film in this case, that don't really belong with the rest of the assignment. This is one like that. Stars & Stripes Photographers Gus Schuettler (left) and Gene Bane (right) make funny faces before fellow Stripes' photographer Ted Rohde. Of the 31 images that were assigned number 03733A in the photo archives, 21 are of Schuettler and Bane clowning before the camera. We guess Schuettler needed to blow off some steam after completing the actual news assignment: photographing Elvis Presley catching a flight back to the United States at Rhein-Main airport. After two years of service - most of it served in Germany - Presley was transitioning out of the Army. Check out who else Schuettler managed to snap a photo off here. https://www.stripes.com/history/archive_photo_of_the_day/2021-09-11/Goodbye-for-now-Elvis-1960-2850319.html META TAGS: Europe; Stars and Stripes history; Stars and Stripes personnel; photographers; photographer; portrait; Presley;
Funny face, 1960

Griesheim, Germany, Feb. 12, 1960: Stars and Stripes photographers Gus Schuettler (left) and Gene Bane (right) make funny faces before fellow Stripes’ photographer Ted Rohde.

Berlin, West Germany, Sept. 15, 1961: A West Berlin girl looks on as young, uniformed East Germans roll out barbed wire. Read the banter between the East and West Berliners as the barriers that would later become the Berlin Wall were erected here. META TAGS: Berlin Wall; Cold War; barbed wire; border; communism; East Berlin; West Berlin; East Germany; West Berlin; children; border guards
Building the Berlin Wall, 1961

Berlin, West Germany, Sept. 15, 1961: A West Berlin girl looks on as young, uniformed East Germans roll out barbed wire.

A West Berlin girl looks on as young, uniformed East Germans roll out barbed wire
From the archives, 1961: A Barbed-Wire Wall and the Two Faces of Berlin

The barrier the East Germans are building here is an incredible work of hate. It’s more than a political dividing line — it’s a brick-and-barbed-wire wall going up along every inch of the 25-mile zigzag border between East and West.