Happy and merry from Bob, 1966

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.

Jumping snow jacks, 2017

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

Operation Christmas Drop, 2012

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.

Tasty cake, 1960

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.

Sous le ciel de Paris, 1998

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.

From the Archives: There’s that familiar face — and another like it

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.

Seeing double, 1976

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

Nice day for a floral wedding, 1948

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

Exercise Jupiter, 1951

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

Quiet solitude with a book, 1960

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.

Navy football fan, 2005

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

Rolling down the river, 1967

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.

Friend to foe, 2012

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.

Robert Fernandez, one of Pearl Harbor attack’s last survivors, dies at 100

Robert Fernandez, who died Wednesday at age 100 in Lodi, Calif., was among the hundreds of service members who survived the Pearl Harbor attack. His death leaves barely more than a dozen survivors of the attack still living.

Get milk, 1960

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

Soldier and child, 1967

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.

Shielding the wounded, 1967

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.