Bringing out the artillery, 2007
Combat Outpost Rawah, Iraq, July 21, 2007: Marines of 2nd Platoon, Battery R, 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, finish getting their M198 155mm howitzer into position for future fire missions.
Combat Outpost Rawah, Iraq, July 21, 2007: Marines of 2nd Platoon, Battery R, 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, finish getting their M198 155mm howitzer into position for future fire missions.
Darmstadt, Germany, March 6, 1992: Shoppers in Darmstadt, Germany, react to the sight of a giant gorilla carrying a human prisoner through their streets. The simian stroll was a promotional stunt for a local store.
Berlin, February, 1947: Two workers repair a Berlin monument that still bears significant scars from World War II.
Frankfurt, Germany, Aug. 21, 1948: In a repeat of their close finish at the recent Olympic Games in London, Harrison Dillard edges American teammate Barney Ewell in the 100 meters at a Frankfurt Athletic Club-sponsored exhibition meet featuring 10 Olympic athletes.
Somewhere in the desert in Kuwait, Feb. 1, 2003: A crew from the 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division readies an M1-A1 Abrams tank at a camp in the Kuwaiti desert near the so-called Highway of Death.
Morocco, March 1957: Vice President Richard Nixon tries to connect with the crowd as he visits with Americans at Nouasseur Air Base.
Tokyo, Feb. 9, 1995: At an Okura Hotel news conference, Robert De Niro poses next to a promotional cutout of himself in his latest role, that of the creature in Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein.
Frankfurt, Germany, July 7, 1948: Berlin Airlift pilots receive their final orders before flying another load of coal out of Rhein-Main Air Base, one of the two hubs (along with Wiesbaden) of the effort to supply the divided city in the face of a Soviet blockade of ground transportation.
Morocco, December 1962: Moroccan farmers use the local beasts of burdens to plow their fields.
South Vietnam, August 1967: A Seabee from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 works on the “Liberty Bridge” across the Thu Bon River, 20 miles south of Da Nang.
Torrejon Air Base, Spain, May 1964: Taking no chances whatsoever, airmen on the flight line at Torrejon Air Base team up to make sure every last buckle is properly fastened on Ann-Margret’s life vest. She was in Spain for the filming of “The Pleasure Seekers.”
Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, August 1960: Soldiers of the 1st Republic of Korea Division keep their machine gun ready for any threats against their outpost on the Demilitarized Zone.
Pashtun Zarghun district, Afghanistan, Feb. 9, 2010: Afghan Police Capt. Abdul Zaher, left, and Staff Sgt. Darvin Cosby, 29, of Chicago, center, guard a suspect arrested by Afghan police as they search his home for bomb-making materials.
Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 1, 1968: A hair and makeup artist touches up Gregory Peck as the actor talks to director J. Lee Thompson on the set of “The Chairman” at the Hsing Tien Kong Temple in Taipei.
Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, Feb. 18, 2000: Staff Sgt. Lee Kline and Spc. Raymond Jugal, both from B Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Aviation, check the radio system on a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter.
Bermel Valley, Afghanistan, Sept. 9, 2002: Children in the village of Sharip-khail huddle against a chilly late afternoon breeze under poncho liners given them by Special Forces soldiers standing guard over the village.
50 miles north of Seoul, South Korea, October 1959: Republic of Korea First Army infantrymen, gas masks on and bayonets at the ready, break through a simulated poison gas cloud.
Oct. 14, 1964, Tokyo: Billy Mills, a U.S. Marine, wins the gold medal in the 10,000 meters at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964.
FOB Summerall, Iraq, July 18, 2008: U.S. Army 1st Lt. Ben Juvinal does his best to hold back the tide during a one-sided soccer match between U.S. and Iraqi troops commemorating the American departure from Forward Operating Base Summerall.