Building a bridge across the Rhine, 1954
West Germany, April 1954: Soldiers from the 109th Engineer Battalion raise guy-wires for a 60-ton bridge being built across the Rhine River during an exercise.
West Germany, April 1954: Soldiers from the 109th Engineer Battalion raise guy-wires for a 60-ton bridge being built across the Rhine River during an exercise.
Camp Casey, South Korea, July 4, 2002: A Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader rides with the crew of an M1A-1 Abrams tanks at Camp Casey, Korea.
Kiedrich, Germany, Oct. 17, 1997: Riesling grapes are harvested from the vine in a Kiedrich, Germany, vineyard.
.jpg/alternates/LANDSCAPE_560/030924BELGIUMphoto011.JPG)
Alfonso Coppola was one of the first American troops to enter Belgium during World War II to free it from Nazi occupation. On Monday, Philip and Loretta Coppola stood on the same road their father marched on, joining the commemoration of Belgium’s liberation 80 years ago.
Lebanon, August 1958: Thanks to typical American ingenuity, soldiers from the 1st Airborne Battle Group, 187th Infantry’s supply and transportation platoon were able to enjoy a nice shower during Operation Blue Bat, a mission to back the beleaguered Lebanese government.
As an 18-year-old Navy yeoman 2nd class, Arthur Grabiner served during World War II aboard the USS Laurens, an attack transport ship that took part in amphibious assaults in the Pacific. At age 98, he is determined to devote this final chapter of his life to sharing memories of his wartime service.
Some 200 World War II military vehicles rolled through the streets of this southwestern Belgian city on Sunday, marking 80 years since U.S. soldiers helped free it from Nazi occupation.
Kadena Air Base, Japan, Aug. 27, 2008: Josh Roberts, 26, of Morris, Ala., races around the track at Ryukyu Middle School on Kadena Air Base.
Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, December 1956: The 24th Division DMZ Police Company’s PFC Winston Mullinax (left), acts as observer on a patrol with SP3 Robert A. Bianchi, radio operator, and PFC Jerome Gillmore, patrol leader.
Mannheim, Germany, Sept. 7, 2004: Jennifer LeVier, a first- and second-grade teacher at Mannheim Elementary School, welcomes students lining up for class on the first day of school.
Man Ray sat chain-smoking cigarettes in a big Paris studio crammed with his circus works and shook his curly gray head about the state of the art in the world. He thinks it fails to do anything new.
Paris, Sept. 22, 1965: Artist Man Ray — photographed in his Paris studio — stands before some of his works.
Till’s brutal killing shocked the world and helped galvanize the civil rights movement. But misconceptions of the events leading to his death have persisted, and the FBI has reopened the case several times - most recently in 2017.
Kuwait City, Kuwait, February 1991: Graffiti marks an overturned Iraqi truck outside of Kuwait City on the road to Basra and Baghdad.
Somewhere near the DMZ, South Korea, December 1950: Two I Corps soldiers use the traditional Korean A-frame — also known as a jige — to carry supplies up to the front near Munsan-ni, South Korea in December 1950.