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Griesheim, Germany, Feb. 12, 1960: Stars and Stripes photographers Gus Schuettler (left) and Gene Bane (right) make funny faces before fellow Stripes’ photographer Ted Rohde.

Tokyo, Japan, June 1959: Shel Silverstein (left), who worked for Stripes as a cartoonist from 1954-1956 and drew the “Take Ten” cartoons, revisits the Tokyo office.

Griesheim, Germany, June 30, 1955: Visiting the paper’s then headquarters in Griesheim, Germany, former Stars and Stripes cartoonist Dick Wingert sketched his favorite character for Jack Gregory of the Stars and Stripes art department.

Seoul, South Korea, August 1956: Workers load bundles of the Korean edition of Pacific Stars and Stripes on a truck for delivery at the paper’s print and distribution point.

Aboard USS Kitty Hawk, March 20, 2003: Seaman Moses Pleitez loads a precision-guided bomb on an F/A-18 Hornet on the USS Kitty Hawk.

Aschaffenburg, Germany, Feb. 2, 1950: Betty Jo Fay, wife of 1st Sgt. Thomas H. Fay, of H Co. 18th Infantry, 1st Division, gets the couple’s daughter, Colleen, 5, ready for bed in the family’s new apartment.

48th Surgical Hospital, South Korea, November 1958: Legs are strengthened by Pfc. Belte Hailu, an Ethiopian from the U.N. compound, who works out on a bicycle exerciser at the 48th Surgical Hospital.

Griesheim, Germany, Aug. 6, 1954: Francis “Red” Grandy (center), Stars and Stripes staff photographer and photo editor, with Maria Kiehl, a temporary Stripes hire, and an unidentified staffer in the photo and art department of Stars and Stripes Europe.

Heidelberg, Germany, June 19, 1948: Romance was in the air for many a service member serving in Europe in those immediate post-war years. Stars and Stripes staffers were not immune to Cupid’s arrow either and Stripes’ staff photographers were often called upon to do double duty as wedding photographers for their love-struck colleagues.

Stars and Stripes Saigon bureau, Vietnam, December 1964: A photo of a Stars and Stripes circulation vehicle was published in the April 1965 issue of SandS, the Pacific Stars and Stripes employee newsletter. The van, used to distribute newspapers around Saigon, was heavily damaged parked close to Hotel Brink when a bomb exploded there Christmas Eve, 1964.