Yongsan Garrison, South Korea, Nov. 11, 2006: Seoul American Falcons football players celebrate their Far East High School Class AA football championship at Falcon Field, Seoul American High School, South Post, Yongsan Garrison, South Korea.
Jagadan, Afghanistan, April 11, 2005: Spc. Lee Isham of the 4th Psychological Operations Group hands out copies of the Peace newspaper to pupils in an all-girls’ class at the Jagadan village school, just outside the gates of Bagram Air Base.
Frankfurt, Germany, March 4, 1971: Singer Jose Feliciano warms up backstage between shows in Frankfurt.
More than a dozen Battleship New Jersey museum volunteers, veterans and ticket holders, rode on the USS New Jersey during its two-hour ride to Camden on Thursday, as the vessel returned to its home pier after a long 12-week repair journey at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Evan Schmidt, a 100-year-old resident of Florence, Colo., and World War II veteran, has not let the passage of time keep him down and, though he takes his time when settling or rising from a seat, his fighting spirit recently enabled him to attend an Honor Flight sponsored by Rocky Mountain Honor Flight in May.
Aviation fans flock to the Dayton International Airport every summer for the annual Dayton Air Show. Now in its fifth decade, crowds attend to witness and experience not only the latest in technology but can also catch a glimpse of aviation’s past.
Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, Oct. 4, 1971: A member of the Army ground crew at Tay Ninh loads rockets onto a Cobra helicopter during an effort to combat stepped-up communist activity near the Cambodian border.
The remains of Challis Rudolph James, on Dec. 7, 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery next week.
The USS Alabama, which has long stood guard in the Mobile Bay, has a new deck. On Thursday, state officials unveiled a new, 22,000 square-foot teak deck on the ship, the premier attraction of Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile.
Sinjar, Iraq, Dec. 12, 2003: Combat engineers with Company C, 326th Engineering Battalion, attached to the 101st Airborne Division, take photos from a safe distance of their controlled detonation of grenades and mortars.
The telegram, addressed to Henry E. Battle, a prominent physician in Andalusia, Ala., was dated April 14, 1918; the time stamped 2:34 a.m. “The Navy Collier Cyclops on which your son, Lee Otis Battle, seaman second class, U.S.N., was a member of the crew is overdue at an Atlantic Port since March thirteenth.”
Pennsylvania schools will now be required to hold a moment of silence on the anniversary of the terror attacks that struck the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, and have the option to teach their students more about the devastating day that profoundly shaped American life and politics.
Tahoua, Niger, June 15, 2005: A Green Beret staff sergeant, right, from 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group teaches foot-patrol tactics to Nigerien soldiers in Tahoua, Niger.
Babenhausen, Germany, 1959: The end of the last day of the school year finds lots of happy students at the elementary school in Babenhausen, the overseas home of the 36th Artillery Group.
A B-29 Superfortress, along with a P-51 Mustang fighter and other World War II aircraft, came to Syracuse Hancock International Airport from around the country as part of the Commemorative Air Force’s AirPower History Tour.
Somewhere in South Korea, July 1958: Charging a dummy representing the enemy, Sgt. Roger G. Cee of Salt Lake City routs the “opponent” out of his foxhole.
Thousands of Americans and Germans gathered at Clay Kaserne over the weekend to commemorate one of the largest and most significant humanitarian missions in history.
Suresnes, France, Sept. 13, 1952: Soldiers from the 18th Infantry Regiment take part in a dedication ceremony at the military cemetery at Suresnes, just outside of Paris.