By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 31, 2010
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Frankfurt, Germany, August 27, 1954: Cowboy star Bill Boyd, TV's Hopalong Cassidy, presents "lucky coins" to a couple of young fans as he and his wife arrive at the Rhein-Main airport during the European segment of an around-the-world vacation.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 30, 2010
Mark Allen ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, July, 1997: Chicago Bulls basketball star Dennis Rodman poses in front of a promotional display during a press conference in Tokyo. The controversial Rodman was in Japan to publicize an upcoming television show. "I just want people to realize here in Japan that I might be wild and crazy," he said, "but there are a lot of things that you have to understand about life besides being wild and crazy. You have to understand what it's all about. I just want to come over here and add a little more excitement to the other side of the world and make it more fun. And hopefully we can all get along together."
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 29, 2010
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Spain, 1964: James McArthur and Hayley Mills walk along the beach on Spain's Costa Brava during the filming of "The Truth about Spring," which also starred Hayley's father, John Mills. MacArthur, the son of acting legend Helen Hayes, died October 28, 2010, at age 72. He acted in dozens of movies and television shows during a career that stretched from 1955 into the 21st century, but he may be best known as detective Danny Williams, Steve McGarrett's assistant ("Book 'em, Danno") on the Hawaii Five-O series from 1968 to 1979.
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Read a story about the filming of "The Truth about Spring" here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 28, 2010
Shigemasa Nagai ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, April 17, 1975: Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller emerges from his plane during a brief stopover at Tokyo International Airport. Rockefeller was on his way to Taiwan as President Ford's representative at the funeral of Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 27, 2010
Katsuhiro Yokomura ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, June 23, 1969: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India waits as one of her Japanese hosts stretches to open a car door while holding an umbrella in place over her. Gandhi's schedule for her eight-day visit included meetings with the imperial family and Prime Minister Eisaku Sato.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 26, 2010
Eikoh Goya ©Stars and Stripes
Futenma Marine Corps Air Facility, Okinawa, January 18, 1963: Cpl. Eugene F. Bilson, crew chief, gives the starting signal to the pilot of a UH-34D helicopter from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 163. The squadron had just returned to Okinawa after six months in Vietnam, during which they lost seven men in an accident 40 miles south of Da Nang.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 25, 2010
Tony Nauroth ©Stars and Stripes
Baltic Sea, October, 1985: The northern sun shines from behind the USS Iowa's guns during maneuvers in the Baltic Sea. The battleship drew large crowds of visitors during its stops in Scandinavian ports, and also reportedly attracted several Soviet and East German spy ships while in open water.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 24, 2010
Bob Cutts ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, November, 1965: A military policeman and his dog are being followed as they patrol the tiny Vinh Long airfield, home of the U.S. Army's 114th Aviation Company, in South Vietnam's Mekong Delta region.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 23, 2010
Bill Franqui ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, November 8, 1978: Jockey Mary Bacon looks out over the Oi Racetrack in Tokyo. Bacon was the first female jockey to ride to 100 wins and to become an apprentice jockey, but she often seemed to be surrounded by controversy. Her weeklong Tokyo appearance, however, brought large crowds to the struggling Oi track. "I came here for more than just money," she told the AP. "I felt I could add to racing here."
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Read a story about Mary Bacon in Japan here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 22, 2010
Lloyd Perkins ©Stars and Stripes
Munich, Germany, September, 1976: Paul and Linda McCartney of Wings harmonize at Munich's Olympiahalle during their European tour. "I think we do some hard stuff, some soft stuff; we just play our kind of music," McCartney said of his post-Beatles band during a Munich press conference. "It's neither hard nor soft nor middle. It's just a variety of sounds."
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Read a story about the Munich concert and press conference here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 21, 2010
Gene Bane ©Stars and Stripes
Rome, August, 1960: One of the proudest, yet most conflicted, spectators during the decathlon competition at the 1960 Olympic Games was UCLA track coach Elvin C. "Ducky" Drake, center, who watched as two of his athletes, Rafer Johnson, left, of the U.S. and C.K. Yang of Taiwan battled for the gold medal right down to the final event. In the end, Johnson used his advantage in the weight events and a personal best in the 1,500 to edge his friend Yang for the gold medal. Drake was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2007; the track facility at UCLA is named in his honor.
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Read a story about the finish of the decathlon competition here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 20, 2010
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Paris, November, 1951: The United States' chief delegate to the United Nations, Warren Austin, left, confers with Secretary of State Dean Acheson as British Foreign Minister (and future Prime Minister) Anthony Eden holds court in the background during a meeting of the General Assembly at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.
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Read a story about the 1951 U.N. session, with photo gallery, here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 19, 2010
Hal Slate ©Stars and Stripes
South Korea, 1957: Pvt. Wanden L. Wallace fits a new carbon electrode into a 60-inch searchlight near Camp Casey, South Korea. The 60-inch, eight-million-candlepower lights, maintained by the 7th Field Artillery Searchlight Platoon, could burn steadily for an hour and 45 minutes and throw a beam 20,000 yards.
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Read a 1957 story about the searchlight platoon here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 18, 2010
Pete Milia ©Stars and Stripes
Offenbach, Germany, February 2, 1978: Tina Turner performs at Offenbach's Stadthalle. A Stars and Stripes reporter at the show called her "a human dynamo of bounding, bouncing and bumping energy." Said Turner, "When I'm out there performing, I'm happy. I'm having fun. I feel so good. I just can't help enjoying myself and I really enjoy the audiences. I want to get them into the feeling of wanting to move."
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Read a story about the Offenbach show here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 17, 2010
Henry Compton ©Stars and Stripes
Metz, France, July 24, 1948: Gino Bartali of Italy, center, relaxes after finishing the Strasbourg-to-Metz stage of the 1948 Tour de France as the overall leader. Bartali, the 1938 champion, held on through the last stages to win the 600,000-franc prize. After his death in 2000, it was revealed that Bartali had been active in the Italian Resistance during World War II, helping Italian Jews flee to safety.
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Read a story about the Tour's stop at Metz here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 16, 2010
Stephanie James ©Stars and Stripes
Berlin, June, 1984: This Berlin wall was neither heavily guarded nor surrounded by minefields; instead, its handy cubicles served as resting places for pigeons. (One of them may have been that day's "secret squab.")
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 15, 2010
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Colleville-sur-Mer, France, January 5, 1978: President Jimmy Carter and French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing gaze out at Omaha Beach and the English Channel during ceremonies at the Normandy American Cemetery, where thousands of U.S. servicemembers who were killed in the World War II liberation of France are buried. Carter, who was wrapping up a nine-day, six-nation tour, said the U.S. is "determined with our noble allies here that Europe's freedom will never again be endangered ... We now have about 200,000 Americans, fighting men, in Europe to make sure that this threat is never before us again."
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Read the story about President Carter at Omaha Beach here
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 14, 2010
Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
Larnaca, Cyprus, August, 1982: Palestine Liberation Organization troops celebrate as the ship that brought them from Beirut arrives in Cyprus, from where they would continue by plane to Jordan or Iraq. Hundreds of U.S. Marines had supervised the negotiated evacuation of the PLO guerrillas from Beirut, which was under attack by Israeli forces.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 13, 2010
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Brussels, Belgium, April, 1958: Only six months after the Soviets launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, and three years before Yuri Gagarin became the first man to venture into space, these young visitors to the Brussels World's Fair were nonetheless ready to embark on a journey to the moon on a large-scale model of an interplanetary rocket at the 100,000-square-foot "Children's Kingdom."
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 12, 2010
Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, March 31, 1960: Stan Getz, master of the tenor saxophone, performs in a jazz show at Frankfurt's Kongresshalle that also featured such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson and Ed Thigpen.
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Read a story about the show here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 11, 2010
Eikoh Goya ©Stars and Stripes
Okinawa, January 12, 1968: During the 30th Artillery Brigade's annual firing practice, Staff Sgt. Donald Ziegelbaver, left, plots a Nike-Hercules missile's course toward an ''unidentified object" as Lt. Wayne Tokiwa, Spec. 5 Allan Imhoff and Staff Sgt. Robert Blount man the controls. Standing at center is the chief evaluator, Maj. Herbert Siegel. The 39-foot-long (including booster) Nike-Hercules was directed to its target through ground-based guidance, unlike the other stalwart of the Army arsenal, the Hawk, which featured an internal guidance system.
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Read more about the Nike-Hercules firing practice here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 10, 2010
Ted Rohde ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, April 28, 1976: Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones performs for a crowd of 11,000 at Frankfurt's Festhalle as the group tours Europe for the first time in three years. A Stars and Stripes review of the show noted that "Jagger is the superstar of the show in every sense. He strutted on stage like a peacock, garbed in a red and green, jumpsuit slit to the waist to reveal a hairless, sweaty torso. In front of the stage, the crowd pressed together, packing the chairless center floor, bobbing to the music, mimicking Jagger's gestures as he waved his fingers and clapped his hands."
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Read the review here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 9, 2010
Gary Cooper ©Stars and Stripes
Off the coast of Vietnam, December 29, 1965: Francis Cardinal Spellman is fitted with appropriate headgear as he tours the deck of the USS Ticonderoga after arriving from Tan Son Nhut Air Base. Spellman, the Archbishop of New York and Apostolic Vicar for the U.S. Armed Forces, celebrated Mass in the ship's hangar bay, ate in the enlisted men's mess, and visited patients in sick bay during his visit.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 8, 2010
Andrew Headland Jr. ©Stars and Stripes
Taipei, Taiwan, November, 1969: George Wallace, past and future Alabama governor and 1968 third-party presidential candidate, talks with reporters at Taipei International Airport. Wallace was to visit Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore and Thailand after leaving Taiwan on his fact-finding tour of Southeast Asia.
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Read a Stars and Stripes story about George Wallace in Taiwan here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 7, 2010
J. Tom Graham ©Stars and Stripes
Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, October, 1968: A street-corner mailbox, courtesy of the 41st Army Postal Unit, adds a touch of home at the Tay Ninh base camp. Makeshift mail trucks were also painted in the familiar red, white and blue motif.
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Read a 1968 story about quality-of-life improvements at Tay Ninh here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 6, 2010
Mike Rush ©Stars and Stripes
South Korea, February, 1975: Wearing a sweater given to him during his visit to the 2nd Infantry Division, New York Yankees great Joe DiMaggio mingles with the crowd at Camp Stanley. DiMaggio's tour of the Far East also took him to Japan and Taiwan.
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Read a story about Joe DiMaggio in South Korea here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 5, 2010
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Brindisi, Italy, August, 1982: Alan Welday tries to operate a satellite tracking camera at St. Vito dei Normanni Air Station in Brindisi, but the light from the full moon makes his job difficult.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 4, 2010
Anita Gosch ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, May, 1988: Singer Whitney Houston performs during one of two sold-out shows at Frankfurt's Festhalle.
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Read a review of Whitney Houston's show at Frankfurt here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 3, 2010
Bob Milnes ©Stars and Stripes
Salisbury Plain, England, March, 1967: Years before the combined wear-and-tear of tourism and nature prompted restrictions on access, tourists walk across the uncluttered surroundings toward Stonehenge. The mysterious structure's purpose has been a matter of scholarly debate for centuries.
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Read the 1967 story about Stonehenge here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 2, 2010
Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
Offenbach, Germany, June 24, 1976: Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot plays at Offenbach, Germany, on the first day of a three-day schedule that also included shows at Munich and Montreux, Switzerland. Lightfoot's most recent single, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, would eventually reach number two on the charts.
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Read the 1976 story about Gordon Lightfoot here.
By Joe Gromelski
Published: October 1, 2010
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Bonn, Germany, February 8, 1953: West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, right, bids farewell to U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who was wrapping up a fact-finding tour of Europe in the first weeks of the Eisenhower administration. At left is Mutual Security Administrator Harold Stassen, the former Minnesota governor and nine-time presidential candidate, who was accompanying Dulles on the tour.
