Tokyo International Airport, Japan, Dec. 10, 1960: Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer, addresses gathered journalists at Tokyo International Airport, Dec. 10, 1960.

Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, July 7, 1964: Cameraman A1C Andrew M. Davaca from Canton, Ohio, focuses on graphics to be used in AFTV Channel 3’s programming.

Mosul, Iraq, Aug. 20, 2010: Sgt. Ryan Carlson, left, shows an Iraqi soldier how to raid a home at Checkpoint 3, a small base outside Mosul.

Saigon, South Vietnam, February 1962: Military supplies are offloaded from the freighter Hawaiian Educator February 1962 at the port of Saigon.

The U.S. Army Basic Training Museum, which documents the history of basic training at the Army’s largest training base, turns 50 on Thursday.

Kandahar, Afghanistan, Nov. 8, 2010: Players scrimmage in preparation for the upcoming season of the Kandahar Hockey League at Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan.

The U.S. 7th Fleet’s flagship USS Blue Ridge recently wrapped up a five-day port call on Vietnam that included a visit to the site of an Army helicopter lost during the Vietnam War, where excavations continue to search for the remains of four soldiers.

Tragedy struck the Port Chicago Naval Magazine on July 17, 1944, when a massive explosion that effectively vaporized nearby cargo ships and facilities on the base killed 320 sailors and civilians, predominantly young African American men in their late teens to early 20s.

Vicenza, Italy, March 30, 2006: Jen Dean greets her husband, Capt. Joel Dean of 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, back to Vicenza, Italy.

Tikrit, Iraq, May 20, 2010: Men detained during an April 23 security sweep in Tikrit wait behind concertina wire at an Iraqi police station.

Early last year, Scott Stephenson, president and CEO of the Museum of the American Revolution, received a phone call that left him stunned.

Tokyo, April 10, 1961: Princess Michiko admires a fountain built in front of the Tokyo Imperial Palace in honor of her second wedding anniversary.

Livorno, Italy, April 8, 2005: U.S. Army trucks from previous wars are stored outdoors at Field Support Battalion-Livorno, Italy, until they are sold to other governments.

Saturday morning broke hot and muggy, not unlike the day 78 years ago when 25 men climbed about a converted B-17 bomber to fly from Greenland to New York after the end of World War II. But the plane never made it.

Mykolaiv region, Ukraine, July 14, 2018: U.S. and Ukrainian Marines provide security near a Ukrainian BTR-80 armored transporter during a company-level attack at the land portion of Exercise Sea Breeze.

Janine Oberrotman, a 98-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, and Dhilan Stanley, 13, have become close friends since they met volunteering at the Illinois Holocaust Museum.

Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 2009: Folk music legend Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen team up to sing “This Land is Your Land” during President Obama’s Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, held two days before the actual inauguration on Jan. 20.