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.

A bronze rosette has been placed next to the name of a World War II airman from Manchester, N.H., on the Wall of the Missing at the North Africa American Cemetery in Carthage, Tunisia, signifying he has been accounted for, officials with the American Battle Monuments Commission said.

U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Dan Winstead Corson was given a hero’s homecoming. The World War II pilot, who was killed in action 82 years ago, was buried with full military honors Wednesday morning in Woodside Cemetery in Middletown, Ohio. He was 27 when he was killed.

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.

The remains of four U.S. Army soldiers killed in World War II have been returned home and will be buried this week with full military honors.

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.

U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Dan Winstead Corson, 27, of Middletown, Ohio, was assigned to the 401st Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force. He was killed in action on Dec. 20, 1942.

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.

U.S. Army Pfc. Mose E. Vance of Bradshaw, W.Va., returned home last week decades after he was killed during World War II. Vance was 21 at the time of his death in 1945.

Morocco, December 1962: Moroccan farmers use the local beasts of burdens to plow their fields.

Eighty years after it was downed in WWII and 4,000 miles from where it helped drive back the German invasion of Soviet Russia, a Russian IL-2 warplane shot down by German forces near the town of Pustoshka is being readied for a historic debut at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

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.

Helen Gregg was 6 years old when her world blew up. She remembers vividly the day in 1958 when she was playing in front of her childhood home outside Florence when everything was shook by an explosion — the result of the accidental aerial release of a nuclear bomb.

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.

Farmers in the Republic of Korea may pray for rain, but ROK soldiers manning the Demilitarized Zone here dread the annual summer deluge as a season of mud.