By Joe Gromelski
Published: September 28, 2012
Tom Dreiling ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, April 25, 1967: Capt. Thomas B. Mannix of B Company, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, center, uses a pair of radios to direct orbiting helicopters into position during a mission to round up suspected Viet Cong who were fleeing from interrogators in Hau Nghai Province. At left is Spec. 4 Thomas J. Alway; at right is Spec. 4 Mike Wells. Once the suspects were rounded up, they weren't freed unless they matched the descriptions on their ID cards. Failing that, they were taken to district headquarters.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: September 27, 2012
Tony Evanoski ©Stars and Stripes
Wiesbaden, Germany, May, 1961: The Andrews Sisters — Maxene, Patty and LaVerne, left to right — mug for the camera as they prepare for a series of shows at U.S. bases in Germany, followed by an eight-week tour of England. The sisters were performing before military audiences for the first time since World War II, when they were the nation's top female group with such hits as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' 1961 story about the Andrews Sisters.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: September 26, 2012
Al Chang ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, October, 1962: Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, left, senior U.S. adviser to the South Vietnamese army's 7th Infantry Division, plots strategy with 11th Infantry commander Maj. Nguyen Duy Bach, Capt. Tran Tien Khang and Maj. Harold E. Dill. The Vietnamese troops were on the trail of Communist guerrillas who had ambushed a 50-member Catholic volunteer paramilitary force, killing 13. Vann was an outspoken critic of U.S. and South Vietnamese tactics, and was forced out of his position in 1963; he later returned as a civilian. His story is told in Neil Sheehan's Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Bright Shining Lie."
RELATED MATERIAL:
An appreciation of John Paul Vann, written after his death in 1972.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: September 25, 2012
Gene Donner ©Stars and Stripes
South Korea, August, 1956: "Dirty Dan" will probably be a lot less dirty once its determined driver, Pfc. Eugene A. Sullivan, is done with it. Sullivan, of Tank Co., 32ns Infantry Regiment, was getting the vehicle ready for a company inspection.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: September 24, 2012
Norm Zeisloft ©Stars and Stripes
Stuttgart, Germany, July, 1962: A 7th Army crew begins fueling a Redstone missile with liquid oxygen during an exercise at Panzer Kasern in Stuttgart. The 70-foot Redstone — added to the USAREUR arsenal in 1958 — had a range of up to 200 miles, and was noted for its accuracy and dependability. A version of the rocket was used to lift America's first two astronauts, Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom, into space.
RELATED MATERIAL:
A Stars and Stripes story and more photos of the 1962 Redstone exercise.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: September 23, 2012
©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, April, 1972: A South Vietnamese man drives his cart through the monsoon rains as his dogs follow faithfully behind.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: September 22, 2012
©Stars and Stripes
Germany, May, 1953: Singer Bing Crosby poses with members of the 7th Army Flight Detachment, who were working on a training problem in the field. Crosby drove from Stuttgart (where he picked up a new Mercedes), to Frankfurt (where he played some golf), with a stop for lunch at Stars and Stripes' Darmstadt office along the way.
RELATED MATERIAL:
Stars and Stripes' story about Bing Crosby's 1953 visit to Germany.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: September 21, 2012
Jim Derheim ©Stars and Stripes
Michelstadt, Germany, April, 1992: A pedestrian finds that right-of-way signs mean nothing when elephants are plodding along in your path. The pachyderms were on their way to the local fairgrounds, where the Circus Giovanni Althof was preparing for weekend performances.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: September 20, 2012
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Germany, February, 1954: Beneath portraits of Comrades Lenin and Stalin, a guard at a neatly-kept (notice the curtains in the window) East German border station near Berlin watches out for trouble during a meeting of foreign ministers in the city.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: September 19, 2012
Carlos Bongioanni ©Stars and Stripes
Zupanja, Croatia, January, 1995: No facilities? No problem. Pfc. Angel Smith tries to keep his appearance acceptable as he shaves while seated in the driver's seat of his Humvee. Smith was camped in Croatia waiting to cross the Sava River into Bosnia.
