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2003 Stars and Stripes archive photos of the day

Published: June 8, 2010

December, 2003
December 31, 2003: Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's finance minister, on trial, 1947
(With story)
December 30, 2003: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower with German children, 1951  (With stories)
December 29, 2003: Wimbledon champ Boris Becker's homecoming, 1985  (With story, additional photos)
December 28, 2003: Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Stewart on their way to Berlin, 1959
December 27, 2003: Songwriter Irving Berlin, 1948
December 26, 2003: USS Wisconsin fires one of its 16-inch guns, 1990 (With stories)
December 25, 2003: On patrol in Vietnam at Christmastime, 1967 (With stories)
December 24, 2003: Bob Hope's Christmas show at Yokota Air Base, 1972  (With stories)
December 23, 2003: Author Ralph Ellison, 1954  (With story)
December 22, 2003: The Cold War is put aside for a few minutes of socializing, 1958  (With story)
December 21, 2003: Architect R. Buckminster Fuller, 1962  (With story)
December 20, 2003: Yoko Ono, on tour to promote her new album, 1986  (With story)
December 19, 2003: Vice President Richard Nixon in Morocco, 1957  (With story and additional photos)
December 18, 2003: Sammy Davis Jr. in London, 1964  (With story)
December 17, 2003: Combat training at Wildflecken, Germany, 1982  (With additional photos)
December 16, 2003: Leonard Bernstein conducts the N.Y. Philharmonic  (With story and additional photos)
December 15, 2003: Actress Joan Crawford on the way to the Berlin film festival, 1959 (With story)
December 14, 2003: Gen. Alexander Haig talks with troops at a training site, 1976 (With story)
December 13, 2003: Singer (and former military brat) John Denver, 1979 (With story)
December 12, 2003: Soviet and Chinese delegates to Geneva talks, 1954 (With stories)
December 11, 2003: Comedian Jack Benny plays the violin, 1948 (With story)
December 10, 2003: Author John Steinbeck and his wife, on their way home, 1963 (With story)
December 9, 2003: Mortar crew during Operation Pipestone Canyon in Vietnam, 1969 (With stories)
December 8, 2003: Former heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano, 1969 (With story)
December 7, 2003: Sir Winston Churchill reviews his old regiment, 1956 (With story)
December 6, 2003: Readying supplies for Kurdish refugees, 1991
December 5, 2003: Berlin Brigade troops in urban warfare training, 1972  (With story)
December 4, 2003: Anthropologist Margaret Mead, 1972  (With story)
December 3, 2003: Audience at a Bill Haley and his Comets show, 1958  (With additional photos)
December 2, 2003: Rhodes scholars from U.S. service academies at Oxford, 1959 (With story)
December 1, 2003: Jim Henson brings the Muppets to Germany, 1987 (With story)


November, 2003
November 30, 2003: 1st Cavalry Division brings the look of the Old West to Saudi Arabia, 1990
November 29, 2003: Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer at Bad Kreuznach, Germany, 1958
November 28, 2003: MPs help with the grape harvest in Germany, 1969 (With stories and additional photos)
November 27, 2003: Pope John Paul II blesses the faithful in London, 1982
November 26, 2003: Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at EUCOM headquarters, 1951 (With stories)
November 25, 2003: NASCAR great Richard Petty at his shop in North Carolina, 1977 (With story)
November 24, 2003: Basketball star Pete Maravich puts on a clinic at Mannheim, 1975 (With story)
November 23, 2003: Omaha Beach three years after D-Day, 1947 (With story)
November 22, 2003: President John F. Kennedy begins his European visit, 1963 (With stories)
November 21, 2003: Mother Teresa stops in Frankfurt, 1987 (With story)
November 20, 2003: A surprise visit from Joe DiMaggio, 1962 (With stories)
November 19, 2003: Aftermath of the first plane crash in the Berlin airlift, 1948 (With stories)
November 18, 2003: President Bill Clinton visits the troops in Kuwait, 1994 (With story)
November 17, 2003: Marines in the Saudi Arabian desert, 1991 (With stories)
November 16, 2003: Actress Goldie Hawn, 1971 (With story)
November 15, 2003: Dennis Hopper displays his art in Fürth, Germany, 1992 (With stories)
November 14, 2003: Children from Chernobyl area visit Germany, 1991 (With stories)
November 13, 2003: Allied Forces Day parade in West Berlin, 1969 (With story)
November 12, 2003: The Harlem Globetrotters frustrate another hapless opponent, 1951 (With story)
November 11, 2003: Battle of the Bulge veterans return to Bastogne, 1988 (With stories)
November 10, 2003: The Berlin Wall begins to crumble, 1989
(With stories and additional photos)
November 9, 2003: The Grateful Dead in Russelsheim, Germany, 1981 (With story)
November 8, 2003: Gary Cooper meets soldiers while on a promotional tour for "High Noon," 1951
November 7, 2003: Former President Jimmy Carter, 1982 (With story)
November 6, 2003: Bob Hope, backstage at Wiesbaden, Germany, 1951 (With story)
November 5, 2003: Rocket expert Wernher von Braun returns to Germany for a visit, 1959 (With story)
November 4, 2003: Sandbag production line in Saudi Arabia, 1990 (With story)
November 3, 2003: The Beatles arrive in Tokyo, 1966 (With stories)
November 2, 2003: Sean Connery, on the set of "Goldfinger" (With story and additional photos)
November 1, 2003: Flutist/singer Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull (With stories)


October, 2003
October 31, 2003: Jonathan Winters rehearses for a show in Germany, 1967 (With story)
October 30, 2003: Gen. Dwight Eisenhower poses for a news cameraman in Germany, 1951. (With story)
October 29, 2003: Gov. Ronald Reagan and son Ron arrive in Taipei, 1971. (With story)
October 28, 2003: Viet Cong prisoner interrogated, 1963. (With story)
October 27, 2003: Fifth anniversary of D-Day landings in Normandy, 1949. (With stories)
October 26, 2003: Richard M. Nixon, Stars and Stripes reader, 1964. (With story)
October 25, 2003: Guitarist Les Paul strikes a pose as he arrives in Germany.
October 24, 2003: Actor James Garner in Saigon, 1967. (With story)
October 23, 2003: Aretha Franklin in Germany, 1968 (With story)
October 22, 2003: "Tunnel rats" at work in South Vietnam, 1967 (With story and additional photos)
October 21, 2003: TV host Art Linkletter talks to a youngster in Wiesbaden, 1967. (With stories)
October 20, 2003: Silent-film comedian Buster Keaton, 1962 (With story)
October 19, 2003: Church service at Ramstein AB, 1959 (With story and additional photos)
October 18, 2003: Nat "King" Cole, onstage in South Korea, 1963  (With stories)
October 17, 2003: Flight deck of the USS Saratoga in the Red Sea, 1990 (With story)
October 16, 2003: JFK and Khrushchev at the Vienna summit, 1961 (With additional photos)
October 15, 2003: A soldier meets up with a camel in the Saudi desert, 1990 (With story)
October 14, 2003: President Reagan's plane touches down at Bitburg, Germany, 1985 (With stories)
October 13, 2003: The Who, at a press conference for their 25th anniversary tour, 1989 (With stories)
October 12, 2003: Handicapped kids enjoy a stay at a German estate, 1957
October 11, 2003: A HAWK missile battery in the Saudi desert, 1990 (With stories)
October 10, 2003: Neil Young at the Schüttorf Open Air Festival, 1993 (With stories)
October 9, 2003: Soldier greets his mom, Gypsy Rose Lee, at the airport, 1965 (With story)
October 8, 2003: Nicolas Minue Challenge obstacle course, 1977 (With story and additional photos)
October 7, 2003: Ozzy Osbourne in Germany, 1989 (With story)
October 6, 2003: George Wallace in Saigon, 1969 (With stories)
October 5, 2003: Caterina Valente at a Frankfurt jazz concert, 1955 (With story)
October 4, 2003: Charlton Heston meets the press in Tokyo, 1966 (With stories)
October 3, 2003: Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie border crossing is removed, 1990 (With stories)
October 2, 2003: Ex-POWs head home after their release from North Vietnam, 1973 (With stories)
October 1, 2003: President Johnson arrives in Manila for a summit meeting (With stories)


September, 2003
September 30, 2003: Blues legend B.B. King, onstage in Frankfurt, 1993 (With stories)
September 29, 2003: Battalion Family Day at Bamberg, Germany
(With story and additional photos)
September 28, 2003: Frank Sinatra stops in Frankfurt on the way home from Munich (With story)
September 27, 2003: Prince Charles and Princess Diana after the wedding ceremony, 1981 (With story)
September 26, 2003: Nirvana's Kurt Cobain at the Rhein Rock Fest, 1991 (With story)
September 25, 2003: Fighting a Rhine River flood, 1955
September 24, 2003: Singer-activist Harry Belafonte, 1988 (With story)
September 23, 2003: Operation Birmingham, Vietnam, 1966 (With stories and additional photos)
September 22, 2003: Gen. Colin Powell watches a Ramstein runway-repair exercise, 1989 (With story)
September 21, 2003: Communists rally in Berlin, 1948 (With story)
September 20, 2003: Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, 1974 (With story)
September 19, 2003: Woody Allen brings his jazz band to Frankfurt, 1996 (With story)
September 18, 2003: Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, 1992 (With stories)
September 17, 2003: Johnny Cash poses backstage at Frankfurt, 1988 (With story)
September 16, 2003: Seagoing wagon train to Neuwerk, Germany, 1960
(With story and additional photos)
September 15, 2003: Country music star and recording industry executive Roy Acuff, 1964 (With stories)
September 14, 2003: Comedian Red Skelton arrives in Tokyo, 1963 (With story)
September 13, 2003: Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy promote education, 1948
September 12, 2003: Bing Crosby with the troops in Germany, 1953 (With story)
September 11, 2003: Life at Patrol Base Diamond II in Vietnam, 1969 (With story and additional photos)
September 10, 2003: Eleanor Roosevelt tours Stuttgart, 1948 (With story)
September 9, 2003: U.S. servicemembers back in Germany after first Gulf War, 1991 (With story)
September 8, 2003: Billie Holiday headlines a Frankfurt jazz show, 1954 (With story and additional photos)
September 7, 2003: Actor Raymond Burr at the Korean DMZ, 1963 (With stories)
September 6, 2003: Adlai Stevenson arrives in Frankfurt, 1953 (With story)
September 5, 2003: Air Force training exercise over Spain, 1961 (With story and additional photos)
September 4, 2003: Supply trucks line up at the start of the Berlin airlift, 1948  (With story)
September 3, 2003: Josephine Baker and her family in France, 1959 (With story and additional photos)
September 2, 2003: Former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis arrives in Germany (With story)
September 1, 2003: Labor leader Walter Reuther, 1953 
(With story)


August, 2003
August 31, 2003: Night firing exercise at Baumholder, Germany, 1956

August 30, 2003: CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, 1956 (With story)
August 29, 2003: Paul McCartney and Wings at Munich, 1976 (With story)
August 28, 2003: President Bill Clinton at Ramstein Air Base, 1996 (With stories)
August 27, 2003: Ed Sullivan films shows at a Munich circus, 1965 (With stories)
August 26, 2003: Pro-Communist rally in Red Square, 1992 (With story and additional photos)
August 25, 2003: Ray Charles performs in Stuttgart, Germany, 1976 (With story)
August 24, 2003: Capt. Pete Dawkins, ex-Army football star, during Operation Utah, 1966 (With stories)
August 23, 2003: A bomb crater on an Iraqi runway, 1992
August 22, 2003: President George H.W. Bush meets the troops in Somalia, 1993 (With stories)
August 21, 2003: Jesse Owens ponders a question during an interview, 1963 (With story)
August 20, 2003: Pope John Paul II on his historic first visit to Great Britain, 1982 (With story)
August 19, 2003: President Lyndon Johnson in Korea, 1966 (With story)
August 18, 2003: Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher and the USS Pueblo's crew are freed, 1968 (With story)
August 17, 2003: Billy Graham stops in Tokyo on his way to visit troops in Vietnam, 1968 (With story)
August 16, 2003: Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder on a promotional tour, 1959 (With story)
August 15, 2003: Elvis Presley begins his Army tour of duty in Germany, 1958 (With story)
August 14, 2003: Robert Kennedy tries out an armored vehicle, 1964 (With stories)
August 13, 2003: Amy Carter makes a friend during President Carter's visit to Germany, 1978
August 12, 2003: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek reviews the Nationalist Chinese fleet, 1968
August 11, 2003: Baseball players arrive in Germany for clinics, 1951 (With story and additional photo)
August 10, 2003: Refugees flee fighting near Saigon, 1968. (With story)
August 9, 2003: Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in Vietnam, 1969. (With stories and additional photos)
August 8, 2003: Sammy Davis, Jr. in Vietnam, 1972. (With additional photos)
August 7, 2003: Errol Flynn gets a kiss at a Frankfurt benefit show, 1954. (With additional photos)
August 6, 2003: Col. Harlan Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder, 1972. (With story)
August 5, 2003: Bruce Springsteen onstage in Frankfurt, 1992. (With story and additional photos)
August 4, 2003: Louis Armstrong, on his way to play for troops in Berlin, 1962. (With story)
August 3, 2003: Nikita Khrushchev reviews Austrian troops before summit with JFK, 1961
August 2, 2003: Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey in Tokyo, 1970
  (With story)
August 1, 2003: Supplies on way to Middle East before first Gulf War, 1990 (With additional photos)


July, 2003
July 31, 2003: Advice columnist Ann Landers, 1974
(With story)
July 30, 2003: Jeep patrol along the Berlin Wall, 1967 (With story and additional photos)
July 29, 2003: Actress Gina Lollobrigida during filming at Munich, 1971 (With story)
July 28, 2003: American H.S. cheerleaders at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, 1966 (With story)
July 27, 2003: South Korean soldiers check the fence at the DMZ, 1975
July 26, 2003: Johnny Cash performs at Rhein-Main, 1968. (With story and additional photos)
July 25, 2003: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner clear customs, 1951.
July 24, 2003: Gulf War soldier is welcomed home by his daughter, 1991.
July 23, 2003: Muhammad Ali promotes his book, 1975. (With additional photos and stories)
July 22, 2003: East Berliners wait for Nikita Khrushchev's motorcade, 1963
July 21, 2003: South Vietnamese province chief decorates villager after battle, 1964
July 20, 2003: World leaders at an economic summit in Bonn, West Germany, 1985
July 19, 2003: Actor Jack Nicholson in Tokyo, 1976
July 18, 2003: Stars and Stripes reporter Paul D. Savanuck, Vietnam war casualty (With stories)
July 17, 2003: Author and columnist William F. Buckley Jr. in Germany, 1968 (With story)
July 16, 2003: Gen. William Westmoreland at a Saigon press conference, 1968
July 15, 2003: Moe Howard of The Three Stooges in Tokyo, 1966 (With story)
July 14, 2003: Salvador Dali at home in Cadaqués, Spain, 1962 (With link to more photos)
July 13, 2003: Berlin airlift "Candy Bomber," Col. Gail S. Halvorsen, 1984 (With story)
July 12, 2003: Bishop Martin Niemoeller, who openly opposed the Nazis, 1965 (With story)
July 11, 2003: Actor Cary Grant meets the press in Tokyo, 1965
July 10, 2003: Famed composer and songwriter Cole Porter in Germany, 1954
July 9, 2003: Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin onstage in France, 1954
July 8, 2003: Gen. and Mrs. Omar Bradley in Normandy, 1969. (With story)
July 7, 2003: Jayne Mansfield poses for photographers in front of the Eiffel Tower, 1957

July 6, 2003: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1969 (With story)
July 5, 2003: President Richard Nixon and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, 1969
July 4, 2003: Gen. Dwight Eisenhower leaves Germany, 1952
July 3, 2003: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer welcomes Former President Herbert Hoover, 1954
July 2, 2003: Former President and Mrs. Harry S Truman, aboard the USS Independence, 1958
July 1, 2003: President John F. Kennedy at Hanau, Germany, 1963 (With additional photos)


June, 2003
June 30, 2003: Fighting near Tay Ninh, Vietnam, 1966
(With additional photos)
June 29, 2003: Filming of "The Sand Pebbles," with Steve McQueen and Candice Bergen, 1965
June 28, 2003: Actor Lee Marvin in Tokyo, 1968.
June 27, 2003: Singer Eartha Kitt meets the press in Germany, 1962
June 26, 2003: Eleanor Roosevelt and John Foster Dulles, 1948 (With additional photos and stories)
June 25, 2003: Aristotle Onassis at the Frankfurt airport, 1955
June 24, 2003: Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne as an infant in Germany, 1948
(With story)
June 23, 2003: Robert Vogeler in Vienna, after his release from a Hungarian prison, 1951
June 22, 2003: President and Mrs. Reagan are welcomed to Bonn, Germany, 1982
June 21, 2003: A salute from two generations, 1988
June 20, 2003: The Apollo 11 astronauts stop in Germany as part of their goodwill tour, 1969

June 19, 2003: 2nd Armored Division demonstrates firing of 280mm cannon, 1955
June 18, 2003: F-15 Eagle takes off from Bitburg Air Base, 1979 (With additional photos)
June 17, 2003: U.S. defeats the Soviet Union in Olympic hockey, 1980
June 16, 2003: Sen. Prescott Bush at USAREUR headquarters, 1957
June 15, 2003: Under fire in Vietnam, 1966 (With story and additional photos)
June 14, 2003: New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel mugs for the camera, 1955
June 13, 2003: Sailor watches Martha Raye show through porthole, 1965
June 12, 2003: Marilyn Monroe visits the troops in Korea, 1954 (With stories and additional photos)
June 11, 2003: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in Vietnam, 1966
June 10, 2003: Filming of "Judgment at Nuremberg," 1961 (With story and additional photos)
June 9, 2003: Attempted escape to the West foiled in Berlin, 1961 (With additional photos)
June 8, 2003: Operation Desert Storm, Battle of the 73 Easting, 1991. (With story)
June 7, 2003: John Wayne at the U.S. Army Hospital on Okinawa, 1967.

June 6, 2003: Ann-Margret entertains servicemembers in Vietnam, 1966. (With additional photos)
June 5, 2003: A spectator stretches to get a photo of President Gerald Ford, 1975.
June 4, 2003: Robert Kennedy greets admirers in Heidelberg, 1964. (With story and additional photos)
June 3, 2003: Elvis Presley relaxes during an interview in Germany, 1960.
June 2, 2003: A wounded soldier gets help from two of his comrades in Vietnam, 1967.
June 1, 2003: Gen. Eisenhower gets the news of Gen. MacArthur's dismissal, 1951.

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