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Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
August 4, 2005

James B. Conant
Ted Rohde �Stars and Stripes

Wiesbaden, Germany, May 19, 1953: U.S. High Commissioner for Germany Dr. James B. Conant, second from right, attends a press reception at the Wiesbaden America House with, left to right, Mrs. Conant; Montagu Pigott, U.S. consul-general in Frankfurt; and Wiesbaden America House Director Leonard Lewis. It was the first official trip to the city for Dr. Conant, recently appointed to the HICOG post after serving as president of Harvard University since 1933.
 
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Past photos of the day

August, 2005
August 3, 2005: Glenn Close as a 19-year-old Up with People cast member, 1966
August 2, 2005: Human-sexuality researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey in Germany, 1955
August 1, 2005: Americal Division base camp in South Vietnam gets supplies, 1968

July, 2005
July 31, 2005: Gen. and Mrs. Curtis LeMay arrive in Belgium, 1958
July 30, 2005: Guards around Presidfent Reagan's limousine in Bonn, 1982
July 29, 2005: War hero Audie Murphy makes a movie in Germany, 1960
July 28, 2005: Author Thornton Wilder arrives in Frankfurt, 1957
July 27, 2005: Robert Kennedy meets with Indonesian President Sukarno, 1964
July 26, 2005: Memorial service for slain Israeli athletes at the Olympics, 1972
July 25, 2005: Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney in Germany, 1989
July 24, 2005: Illumination rounds fill the sky at Landing Zone Ross in Vietnam, 1968
July 23, 2005: Celebrating the Bicentennial at Yongsan Garrison, 1976
July 22, 2005: Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin onstage in France, 1953
July 21, 2005: Rock and roll legend Bill Haley in Frankfurt, 1965
July 20, 2005: Gen. William Westmoreland at a press conference in Saigon, 1968
July 19, 2005: Chuck Yeager with grandchildren at Kaiserslautern graduation, 1988
July 18, 2005: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower visits U.S. troops in Munich, 1951
July 17, 2005: Archbishop Makarios arrives in Athens, 1957
July 16, 2005: Egg truck overturns on the autobahn, 1954
July 15, 2005: Harry Belafonte performs in Frankfurt, 1988
July 14, 2005: U.S. soldiers raid enemy camp during Operation Junction City, 1967
July 13, 2005: Explorer Thor Heyerdahl checks artifacts through customs, 1957
July 12, 2005: American students welcome President Kennedy to Vienna, 1961
July 11, 2005: Shrink-wrapped CH-47 helicopters readied for stateside shipment, 1988
July 10, 2005: Speakers' Corner at London's Hyde Park, 1964
July 9, 2005: Sen. Margaret Chase Smith arrives for a tour of USAFE bases, 1957
July 8, 2005: Escapees from East Germany meet Johnny Cash, 1972
July 7, 2005: Sightseeing American airmen line up near the Berlin Wall, 1961
July 6, 2005: Soldiers at a convalescent center in South Vietnam, 1969
July 5, 2005: Civil-rights leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy at Camp Zama, 1982
July 4, 2005: The Andrews Sisters, 1961
July 3, 2005: Aerial view of Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe's farewell ceremony, 1956
July 2, 2005: Singer Luther Vandross onstage, 1993
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

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