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Archive photo of the day

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Boys stare through the broken windows of a local school in the village of Shanafiya in southern Iraq, August 2003.

Asian-Pacific Day at Yokota, 2018

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Students don traditional Japanese kimono with help from local volunteers during Asian-Pacific Day at Yokota High School, May 3, 2018.



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Fukuoka Parade, 1960

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Japanese women in traditional dress carry lanterns advertising the Fukuoka Night Club on Kyushu Island, Japan, October 1960.

Catch them when you can, 2003

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Spc. Stacy Miller of the Illesheim-based 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment grabs a few winks as the convoy of 11th Aviation Regiment units stops along Highway 1, near An Nasiriyah in southern Iraq on March 22, 2003.

Your joke better not bomb, 1968

Crew members laugh at a joke while rearming operations of the USS Buchanan during Operation Sea Dragon are underway somewhere off the coast of North Vietnam, July 15, 1968.

The Librarian and the General, 1955

From the Stars and Stripes archives: General Lyman Louis “L.L.” Lemnitzer looks through some files in the Pacific Stars and Stripes library as librarian Toshi Tokunage looks on in Tokyo, Oct. 3, 1955.

Getting the news, 1958

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Stars and Stripes staff writer Millard “Corky” Alexander types out the news dictated to him over the telephone in Tokyo, 1958.

American Soba boy, 1959

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Eleven-year-old Bill Wheeler is learning the intricate recipes and cooking methods of making the 40-odd varieties of Soba in Tokyo, October 1959.

Ready to celebrate, 1959

Pacific Stars and Stripes cartoonist Shel Silverstein and his former colleagues Al Ricketts (middle), entertainment editor and columnist (1952-1968) and Pat Carroll, staff writer (1954-1959) and holder of a giant bottle of Sake in Tokyo, June 1959.

Fan dance for First Lady, 2002

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Korean teens from Choong-buk Arts High School perform a traditional fan dance for Laura Bush at the Samcheong-kag theater in Seoul on Feb. 20, 2002.

Checking the paper, 1956

From the Stars and Stripes archives: One pressman adjusts the printing machine setting while another checks a Stars and Stripes Pacific edition newspaper coming from the printing machine at Hardy Barracks in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 1, 1956.

Anybody home, 2007

From the Stars and Stripes archives: An Iraqi policeman searches a home suspected to be a base of operations for insurgents in Albu Faraj, Iraq, Jan. 3, 2007.

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