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Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
July 2, 2005

Luther Vandross
Jim Derheim �Stars and Stripes

Frankfurt, Germany, June 12, 1993: Luther Vandross, winner of the previous year's Ebony magazine poll as the number-one entertainer, shows fans at Frankfurt's Jahrhunderthalle how he secured the title. "His style is sophisticated, gentle," a Stripes review of the show noted. "His delivery [is] lavish. His on-stage demeanor [is] sincere." Vandross died Friday, July 1, 2005, never having fully recovered from a stroke he suffered in 2003 (although he did continue recording, and won four Grammys in 2004).
 
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Past photos of the day

July, 2005
July 1, 2005: Comedian Redd Foxx in Germany, 1976

June, 2005
June 30, 2005: Break time on the USS Independence in the Persian Gulf, 1992
June 29, 2005: Wilma Rudolph and teammates, getting ready for the Olympics in Rome, 1960
June 28, 2005: George Brett prepares for the Kansas City Royals' tour of Japan, 1981
June 27, 2005: Marines storm ashore during a NATO exercise, 1957
June 26, 2005: Rev. Billy Graham mingles with the crowd at a Frankfurt revival, 1954
June 25, 2005: Singer Pat Boone is welcomed to Japan, 1964
June 24, 2005: 1908 Mercedes on the autobahn at Darmstadt, Germany, 1954
June 23, 2005: The Shah of Iran visits the World's Fair, 1964
June 22, 2005: Chinese delegation's driver at Geneva sees his picture in Stars and Stripes, 1954
June 21, 2005: Army nurses go through customs on the way home from Vietnam, 1973
June 20, 2005: Vice President Hubert Humphrey in Saigon, 1967
June 19, 2005: Clare Booth Luce boards a plane for Berlin, 1957
June 18, 2005: Soldiers in Berlin are issued the new M14 rifles, 1961
June 17, 2005: James Brown onstage at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam, 1968
June 16, 2005: Soldiers clean a howitzer at Baumholder, Germany, 1955
June 15, 2005: 101st Airborne's "jump school" in South Vietnam, 1967
June 14, 2005: 509th Airborne at winter training in Italy, 1979
June 13, 2005: Gregory Peck arrives at the German premiere of a film, 1953
June 12, 2005: Singer Nancy Wilson in Tokyo, 1969
June 11, 2005: Japan's Kokichi Tsuburaya, after finishing third in Olympic marathon, 1964
June 10, 2005: President Carter pays his respects at the Normandy American Cemetery, 1978
June 9, 2005: Errol Flynn arrives in Germany for a benefit show, 1954
June 8, 2005: Guitarist Carlos Santana onstage in Tokyo, 1979
June 7, 2005: Newsman Edward R. Murrow stops off in Frankfurt, 1953
June 6, 2005: Veterans of the D-Day landing return to Normandy, 1954
June 5, 2005: On the radio in South Vietnam, 1967
June 4, 2005: Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham in Japan, 1986
June 3, 2005: Sylvester Stallone, in Japan to promote Rocky III, 1982
June 2, 2005: Globetrotting cyclist celebrates triumph over polio, 1968
June 1, 2005: Gen. Eisenhower visits "Exercise Combine" in Germany, 1951

May, 2005
May 31, 2005: Umpires arrive in Germany for EUCOM baseball clinic, 1952
May 30, 2005: Memorial Day ceremony at the American military cemetery in Luxembourg, 1985
May 29, 2005: "Camel caravan" to blockaded Berlin stops in Wiesbaden, 1948
May 28, 2005: Elephant crosses a stream in South Vietnam, 1969
May 27, 2005: U.S. Marines under fire in South Vietnam, 1971

May 26, 2005: Senators Symington and Bridges in Germany, 1954
May 25, 2005: Home-run kings Sadaharu Oh and Hank Aaron, 1984
May 24, 2005: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner sample Sinatra's birthday cake, 1951
May 23, 2005: Soldier relaxes outside his bunker in South Vietnam's Central Highlands, 1967
May 22, 2005: David Douglas Duncan talks about one of his combat photos, 1971
May 21, 2005: German hospital gets an "iron lung" machine for treatment of polio, 1951
May 20, 2005: Tennis star Maureen Connolly arrives in Frankfurt, 1954
May 19, 2005: Berlin Airlift-related rollover on the autobahn, 1948
May 18, 2005: Jean Monnet, "the Father of the European Community," 1953
May 17, 2005: Actor Peter Cushing on the set in Bavaria, 1977
May 16, 2005: Pilgrims on a candlelight parade at the shrine at Lourdes, France, 1964
May 15, 2005: Banner welcomes President Ford to South Korea, 1974
May 14, 2005: Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. McConnell reviews JASDF troops, 1966
May 13, 2005: USS Midway in drydock at Yokosuka, 1986
May 12, 2005: Frank Zappa onstage in Germany, 1978
May 11, 2005: South Korean general tries out a grenade launcher, 1963
May 10, 2005: Lunch break, sheltered from the monsoon rains in Vietnam, 1972
May 9, 2005: Escape from East Berlin, 1961
May 8, 2005: Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie plays in Tokyo, 1969
May 7, 2005: Singer Mel Torme gets married in Tokyo, 1966
May 6, 2005: Communist youth rally in East Berlin, 1951
May 5, 2005: Don King and Mike Tyson promote an upcoming fight, 1990
May 4, 2005: Armored personnel carrier is hauled back onto the road after an accident, 1985
May 3, 2005: Singer Tony Bennett in Tokyo, 1968
May 2, 2005: Listening for Viet Cong infiltrators at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, 1968
May 1, 2005: California Gov. and Mrs. Ronald Reagan in the Philippines, 1976

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