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.
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.
South Korea, August 1958: Trixie has some tricks up her paw as she seems to pilot the H-13 Sioux helicopter of the 6th Transport Company (Helicopter), but it’s actually the photographer’s trick angle that makes the actual pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Charles C. Baldwin disappear.
Retired Army Maj. Larry Moores has received the Silver Star Medal for valor in combat more than 30 years after his actions in the infamous 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia — the battle made famous by the 2001 film “Black Hawk Down.”
Melvin Kealoha Bell, who served as the first person of color to achieve the rank of Master Chief in the combined sea services, was honored at the Coast Guard Academy at the ship’s commissioning on March 28.
Parwan province, Afghanistan, June 10, 2015: Navy Corpsman 1st Class Darrell Jones takes a knee while U.S. and Georgian troops question Afghan locals during a security patrol.
Ramstein, Germany, Aug. 7, 2008: Calin Petro, 7, sporting a Pony Tails shirt, jeans and North Side tennis shoes on the left and Kaelin Gould, 6, wearing a Beautees shirt, jeans and Skechers tennis shoes strike a pose in the Ramstein Elementary School library.
U.S. Army Sgt. John O. Herrick, who was just 19 when he was killed on June 6, 1944, is coming home to Emporia, Kan.