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.

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

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.

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.

Here’s a look at grammar school students in 1960 in Seoul from the Stars and Stripes archives.

South Vietnam, April 1967: Sgt. George Edmonds carries a wounded Vietnamese child to a helicopter on a patrol by the U.S. Army’s 199th Light Infantry Brigade in the area of Can Giouc.

An Lao Valley, Vietnam, April 1967: Two tanks from 1st Platoon, A Company, 60th Armored Cavalry move in to help soldiers shield a wounded comrade during fighting along a riverbank in the An Lao Valley in 1967.

Garmisch, Germany, March 1, 2003: Mark Marchant races down the piste in the ski giant slalom event at the 2003 U.S. Forces Europe Ski and Snowboard Series in Garmish.

Berlin, Germany, Feb. 6, 1947: Military Police wait at the snow-covered entrance at Berlin’s Lichterfelde-West train station for former President Herbert Hoover to arrive.

Grafenwoehr, Germany, June 3, 1950: Five tanks roll passed the review stand at Grafenwoehrs’s parade grounds.