Game time for students at a seminary in Spain, 1961

Merle Hunter ©Stars and Stripes
Madrid, Spain, March, 1961: Students at a Dominican theological seminary affiliated with the Church of St. Peter the Martyr play a game of table soccer during a break in their studies. Not only was the church — located near the U.S. Air Force's Royal Oaks housing area, just north of Madrid — one of Spain's most modern in the early 1960s, but the seminary also had its own FM radio station and a 150-seat theater.

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Stars and Stripes' 1961 story about the Church of St. Peter the Martyr.

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Search and rescue boat looms over diver at Iwakuni, 1974

Bob Wickley ©Stars and Stripes
Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, June, 1974: Petty Officer 2nd Class Ken Moore might appear to be a potential snack in the sights of a fearsome aquatic creature, but he's actually swimming in front of a search and rescue boat at the Iwakuni crash boat house. Moore, a qualified Navy diver, was assigned to the SAR boat team.

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Errol Flynn arrives in Frankfurt, 1954

George Penn ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, February, 1954: Actor Errol Flynn, wearing an alpine hat and holding a large beer mug from a local brewery, is greeted at the Rhein-Main airport as he arrives for a March of Dimes benefit show.

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Stars and Stripes' 1954 story about Errol Flynn in Frankfurt.

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Norwegian troops during NATO exercise, 1954

Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Norway, September 1954: Three members of the Norwegian Army's Horseback Company 2, taking part in NATO's Polar Mist exercise far above the Arctic Circle, utilize a type of oat-fueled transportation designed to reach difficult mountain positions.

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Rooftop swim in Frankfurt, 1954

Maria Kiehl ©Stars and Stripes
Frankfurt, Germany, June, 1954: Employees in a Frankfurt office building enjoy a cooling dip in the city's first rooftop swimming pool, six stories above the street. 

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Seabees' new bridge in Vietnam gets a test, 1967

Gerard Forken ©Stars and Stripes
South Vietnam, November 17, 1967: A heavily-loaded bus provides a test for a bridge being built by U.S. Navy Seabees on Route 1 between Phu Loc and Lang Co in South Vietnam's coastal lowlands. The previous bridge had been destroyed by Viet Cong shelling, and attacks continued during the construction effort.

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Stars and Stripes' 1967 story about the Seabees at work.

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Former President Gerald Ford in Tokyo, 1979

Chet King ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, March, 1979: Players from the the Gakushuin University football team line up to greet a one-time University of Michigan center, former President Gerald R. Ford, as he arrives at the school to receive an honorary degree and a medal.

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Stars and Stripes' 1979 story about former President Ford's visit to Tokyo.

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Abandoned guard tower in Germany, 1990

Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
Germany, October, 1990: Almost a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, tall grass and rusty barbed wire frame a deserted watch tower at the former East-West border near Bad Hersfeld.

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Learning about booby traps in Vietnam, 1966

Jack Baird ©Stars and Stripes
Da Nang, South Vietnam, April, 1966: Sgt. Henry D. Halloway, right, explains the workings of a Viet Cong-style spiked deadfall trap to Pfc. James M. Gatto during a class at the Marine Corps Demolition and Mine Warfare School at Da Nang.

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Stars and Stripes' story about the warfare school and the booby traps used by the VC.

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Searching for firewood in Anzio, Italy, 1945

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Anzio, Italy, January, 1945: A woman hunts for firewood in the rubble heaps of Anzio, one year after the January 22, 1944 allied landing known as Operation Shingle. During the Anzio campaign, 2,800 American servicemembers were killed, 11,000 wounded and 2,400 captured.

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