Archive photo of the day

Air Force wives volunteer for Operation Babylift, 1975

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A group of Red Cross registered nurses and volunteers arrive at Yokota Air Base April 7, 1975 after assisting on a flight evacuating 327 Vietnamese orphans from Saigon, Vietnam.

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A close-up view of a woman next to musical instruments looking down with her hand on her chin.

Jazz seminar, 2017

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Saxophonist Sarah Steers from Stuttgart takes a break during the DODEA-Europe Jazz Semina at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Jan. 10, 2017.

A black-and-white, 1970s-era photo of a woman seated on the floor of an airplance holding two babies as reporters stand in front of her.

The baby lift before Operation Babylift, 1975

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Mary Fisher, wife of a Seventh Day Adventist Church minister, holds an infant as she is surrounded by reporters aboard the World Airways plane that landed at Yokoto Air Base, April 3, 1975.

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Lady Bird Johnson gets comfortable, 1963

From the Stars and Stripes archives: During a visit to the U.S. Food and Agriculture Exhibition at Amsterdam’s new RAI building, Lady Bird Johnson tries out what appears to be a very comfortable chair as her husband, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, awaits his turn on Nov. 8, 1963.

Searching for insurgents, 2008

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Pfc. Chase Webb, 19, (right) and Spc. Walt Vansciver, 32, search the upstairs of a building while looking for insurgents in the Abu Saif area of Baghdad in Iraq on March 15, 2008.

Ready to blow, 2002

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Explosive ordnance experts attach explosives to Soviet rockets for the purpose of blowing up the munitions in Kandahar, Afghanistan on Feb. 25, 2002.

Bit of a picnic, 1955

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Personnel of the 24th Recon, Co. in South Korea eat lunch on tables outside their Quonset hut mess hall while the building gets a spring cleaning, April 1955.

Air Force One, 1966

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Members of the maintenance crew for the fleet of presidential aircraft polish the exterior of the plane known as SAM 26000 while in the hangar at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on July 28, 1966.

First light, first sight, 1954

From the Stars and Stripes archives: After groping through 12 years of darkness, a little Korean boy, Lee Toi Byun, was given his sight recently after an operation performed by Maj. G. Peter Halberg a New York eye specialist at the 121st Evacuation Hospital near Seoul, 1954.

The OG Outlaw, 1996

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Willie Nelson performs at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Germany on May 2, 1996.

A black-and-white, 1970s-era image of actor Mark Hamill sitting at a table in a school classroom speaking to students, with military service members standing behind him.

Luke Skywalker visits Nile C. Kinnick High School, 1978

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Mark Hamill, better known to many as young Jedi Luke Skywalker of Star Wars fame, seems to be telling students, staff and reporters at an assembly at the Teen Club at Nile C. Kinnick High School that these are not the droids they’re looking for in Yokosuka, Japan, on June 16, 1978.

A black-and-white, 1950s-era image of South Korean citizens marching down a street holding a large banner that reads “Let’s march north for the unification of the motherlands.”

Unification or death, 1953

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Hundreds of South Koreans march through the streets of Seoul chanting “to north” and holding banners that read “Give us unification or death,” and “Let’s march north for the unification of the motherlands” on April 28, 1953.