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November 7, 2006

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South Korea, July, 1959: With a roar and a flash of flame, an Honest John rocket takes off from a firing range in South Korea.
 
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Past photos of the day

November, 2006
November 6, 2006: Loudspeakers aimed into East Berlin, 1963
November 5, 2006: German woman is found hiding in a U.S.-bound crate, 1947
November 4, 2006: Rev. Billy Graham visits the Stars and Stripes offices, 1955
November 3, 2006: Author James Baldwin is interviewed in Germany, 1973
November 2, 2006: Country music star Hank Snow, 1962
November 1, 2006: Horse-drawn wagon slows convoy in Bosnia, 1997

October, 2006
October 31, 2006: Baseball umpire Emmett Ashford, 1970
October 30, 2006: Wounded South Vietnamese soldier, 1963
October 29, 2006: Boston Celtics coach Red Auerbach at a USAFE basketball clinic, 1955
October 28, 2006: Aboard a Vietnamese Navy patrol boat, 1965

October 27, 2006: Anthony Quinn and son during filming in Spain, 1965
October 26, 2006: Muhammad Ali at a Frankfurt press conference, 1966
October 25, 2006: USS Fife in the Gulf of Oman, 1990
October 24, 2006: Searching a Viet Cong base camp in South Vietnam, 1967
October 23, 2006: Speakers' Corner at London's Hyde Park, 1961
October 22, 2006: Runner at the Berlin Wall, 1974
October 21, 2006: Eisenhower White House chief of staff Sherman Adams, 1955
October 20, 2006: Houston Rockets basketball star Moses Malone, 1978
October 19, 2006: Wash day in South Korea, 1961
October 18, 2006: Elvis Presley arrives in Germany, 1958
October 17, 2006: President Reagan reviews German troops, 1985
October 16, 2006: Singer Freddy Fender onstage at Yokota Air Base, 1982
October 15, 2006: Former Stars and Stripes staffers Bill Mauldin and Andy Rooney, 1992
October 14, 2006: Tank-shaped cake awaits Operation Big Lift troops, 1963
October 13, 2006: Former Air Force Staff Sgt. Johnny Cash, 1959
October 12, 2006: Graffiti near the Berlin Wall, 1962
October 11, 2006: Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp conducts a USAREUR clinic, 1967
October 10, 2006: Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in Vietnam, 1963
October 9, 2006: Sun sets behind power lines in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 1982
October 8, 2006: A model of the World Trade Center is displayed in Germany, 1965
October 7, 2006: The Apollo 8 space capsule is trucked through Germany, 1969
October 6, 2006: World War II propagandist "Axis Sally" returns home, 1948
October 5, 2006: Viking festival in Germany, 1980
October 4, 2006: Fashion designer Pierre Cardin in Tokyo, 1966
October 3, 2006: Batter avoids a pitch in a youth baseball game, 1976
October 2, 2006: Marine learns about enemy booby traps in Vietnam, 1966
October 1, 2006: Folk singer Donovan Leitch at W�rzburg, Germany, 1976

September, 2006
September 30, 2006: Hollywood stars in Berlin make donations to the March of Dimes, 1950
September 29, 2006: John Travolta promotes Look Who's Talking in Munich, 1990
September 28, 2006: Boy meets oversized penguin at commissary, 1997
September 27, 2006: KC-135 tankers in the Saudi Arabian desert, 1990
September 26, 2006: Singer-actor David Hasselhoff onstage in Germany, 1991
September 25, 2006: Vice President Hubert Humphrey in South Korea, 1966
September 24, 2006: Maj. Gen. James A. Van Fleet visits a signal school, 1948
September 23, 2006: Radio commentator H.V. Kaltenborn, 1953
September 22, 2006: Fans meet Hall & Oates backstage at Frankfurt, 1984
September 21, 2006: Cambodian Prime Minister Lon Nol visits South Vietnam, 1971
September 20, 2006: Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson in Tokyo, 1988
September 19, 2006: Candice Bergen, during the filming of The Adventurers in Rome, 1968
September 18, 2006: U.S. adviser briefs Montagnard soldiers before a patrol in Vietnam, 1964
September 17, 2006: Relaxing on the beach in Beirut, Lebanon, 1958
September 16, 2006: Actor and WWII pilot Wayne Morris, 1954
September 15, 2006: The Village People in Tokyo, 1980
September 14, 2006: Leaders of the Big Four powers in Geneva, 1955
September 13, 2006: All is quiet at Berlin's Brandenburg gate, 1961
September 12, 2006: Sunflowers in southern France, 1983
September 11, 2006: Terrorist who threw grenade into Saigon crowd is cornered, 1962
September 10, 2006: Bullet-scarred South Vietnamese convent, 1968
September 9, 2006: Grape harvest in the Rhine River valley, 1992
September 8, 2006: European war brides await their flight to the U.S., 1948
September 7, 2006: Singer-activist Sting at a Tokyo press conference, 1989
September 6, 2006: President Nixon greets freed hostages in Rome, 1970
September 5, 2006: Jazz musician Herbie Hancock in Tokyo, 1974
September 4, 2006: American adviser John Paul Vann with South Vietnamese troops, 1962
September 3, 2006: Fake Brandenburg Gate built for the filming of One, Two, Three, 1961
September 2, 2006: Actor Montgomery Clift on the set in Frankfurt, 1949
September 1, 2006: Family living at Berlin border crossing, 1961

August, 2006
August 31, 2006: Maj. Gen. Stanley R. Larsen gets some sleep during a flight in Vietnam, 1965
August 30, 2006: Alex Trebek, in Germany for Jeopardy auditions, 1987
August 29, 2006: Cows are herded to their winter home in Germany, 1954
August 28, 2006: Former President Gerald Ford in Tokyo, 1979
August 27, 2006: Billboard in the Spanish countryside, 1988
August 26, 2006: Carrier Division Two's commander gets in some roadwork, 1968
August 25, 2006: Jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson at the Montreux festival, 1977
August 24, 2006: Redstone missile is fueled during a demonstration for reporters, 1960
August 23, 2006: B-52 bomber takes off from Guam, 1965
August 22, 2006: Displaced persons leave Germany for their new home in Venezuela, 1947
August 21, 2006: "Welcome to Berlin" sign in bricked-up window at border, 1961
August 20, 2006: U.S. soldier and Viet Cong suspect in South Vietnam, 1968
August 19, 2006: Game-show host Garry Moore and his troupe arrive in Germany, 1949
August 18, 2006: Michael Hutchence of INXS, 1990
August 17, 2006: Boxer-actor Ken Norton promotes his first movie, 1975
August 16, 2006: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower visits 1st Infantry Div. headquarters, 1951
August 15, 2006: Well-fed 18-foot snake in Vietnam, 1967
August 14, 2006: Roger Moore filming a James Bond movie in England, 1982
August 13, 2006: 3-D comic books arrive in Germany, 1953
August 12, 2006: Overzealous fan at a Bush concert in England, 1997
August 11, 2006: Soldiers in Berlin take a break from the Cold War tension, 1961
August 10, 2006: Sen. and Mrs. Robert Taft arrive in Frankfurt, 1948
August 9, 2006: Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in Germany, 1971
August 8, 2006: Easy-listening music king Mantovani in Germany, 1953
August 7, 2006: Relaxing at Vinh Long airfield in Vietnam, 1965
August 6, 2006: UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman plays in the Japan Bowl, 1989
August 5, 2006: Traditional meets modern in the Netherlands, 1988
August 4, 2006: Elton John at Frankfurt's Festhalle, 1991
August 3, 2006: NBC's "Today" show hosts in Tokyo, 1971
August 2, 2006: Inspection time for palace guards in London, 1959
August 1, 2006: Dionne Warwick wins the grand prize at the Tokyo Music Festival, 1980

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