Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, Dec. 21, 1966: Bob Hope stands solo on stage as he delights thousands of U.S. service members with his jokes a few days before Christmas.

Pyeongchang, South Korea, Dec. 19, 2017: U.S. and South Korean Marines get airborne during a short workout.

Yokota Air Base, Japan, Dec. 11, 2012: The Operation Christmas Drop 2012 patch worn by C-130 aircrew members from the 36th Airlift Squadron from Yokota Air Base, Japan.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.