Scaffolding surrounds the building formerly known as The Ernie Pyle Theater in this Stars and Stripes photo.

Performers do a fan dance at the Korea House in Seoul in this Stars and Stripes photo.

One of the last known subchasers built to defend the U.S. in World War II has spent the past 80 years sitting in North Carolina’s Cape Fear River.

1st. Lt. Didier Bize is on patrol in a Leclerc main battle tank near Kosovoska Mitrovica, Kosovo in this Stars and Stripes photo.

Donald McPherson served as a Navy fighter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex in the Pacific theater, where he engaged Japanese forces during the final years of the war.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Maj. Gen. William L. Nash, Commanding General, 1st Armored Division in Bosnia-Herzegovina, talks to troops at Tuzla Air Base in Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 1996.

The National Capital Radio & Television Museum in Bowie, Md., is opening a new exhibit on the American Forces Network. AFN is an important but little-known chapter in the history of broadcasting, the museum’s director says.

For forces on the ground, the IED evokes an almost mythical terror. But for Task Force Paladin, a specialized bomb-hunting unit, the top killer in Afghanistan is simply another weapon they have to defeat.

The Afghan insurgency, at one point dormant if not defeated, is now the strongest it has been since the start of the war, and the Taliban and other insurgents have honed a proficiency in improvised explosive devices.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Explosive ordnance technicians scour the scene after a triggerman detonated a bomb under a U.S. military vehicle in Afghanistan’s hostile Tangi Valley, Oct. 17, 2009.