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Tasty cake, 1960

Seoul, South Korea, October 1960: Yong Kun (Tex) Kim enjoys a piece of cake at the USO in Seoul. Found wandering the streets alone, the 8-year-old orphaned boy has been cared for by personnel of the USO Seoul.

Sous le ciel de Paris, 1998

Paris, France, Nov. 1998: A statue at the Tuileries, the Eifel tower and the obelisk on the Place de la Concorde are silhouetted in a Paris purple sky.

From the Archives: There’s that familiar face — and another like it

When Patricia Ann Malaya gets up in the morning and looks into the mirror, she’s apt to see almost a double image of herself. And it’s no trick mirror that causes this. This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, Feb. 25, 1976. It is republished unedited in its original form.

Seeing double, 1976

Karlsruhe, Germany, Feb. 18, 1976: Spec. 5 David Montgomery, company clerk of the 517th Maintenance Co., ponders which of his assistants is which.

Nice day for a floral wedding, 1948

Heidelberg, Germany, June 19, 1948: Mary Joan Liddle of Wallasey, Cheshire, England, former secretary to the managing editor of Stars and Stripes, and Sheridan Louis Moyer, of Wheeling, W. Va., are heading to the Providence Church in Heidelberg to get married

Exercise Jupiter, 1951

Dornheim, Germany, Sep. 29, 1951: A jeep emerges from a LTC 1283 landing craft after having crossed the Rhine river during Operation Jupiter.

Quiet solitude with a book, 1960

Paris, July 16, 1960: A patron sits on a stepstool by one of the large windows in the American Library in Paris, daylight illuminating the selection he pulled from the stacks next to him.

Navy football fan, 2005

Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 3, 2005: Adrienne Maeser of North Carolina leaves no doubt who she’s cheering for.

Rolling down the river, 1967

South Vietnam, May 1967: Moving in a tactical formation, South Vietnamese Army “rag boats” ferry U.S. troops from the 25th Infantry Division down the Saigon River on the edge of the Boi Loi Woods, near Cu Chi, during Operation Manhattan.

Friend to foe, 2012

Shegal district, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2012: First Lt. Andrew Ferrara, a 23-year-old platoon leader from Torrance, Calif., talks with locals during a patrol of the main bazaar in Shegal district, Kunar province.

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