Troopers block Bama Schools 1963
This nameplate was used in 1963
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From the Archives

The bullet-riddled truck in which four United Nations Command soldiers — two Americans and two South Koreans — were killed in an ambush at the Korean DMZ in April, 1968.

DMZ ambush survivors seen lucky to be alive

Observers at the scene of Sunday night's bold ambush by Communist North Koreans who machine-gunned and killed four United Nations Command soldiers reached one conclusion: "I don't see how anybody survived this."

A member of the 475th Civil Engineering Squadron

Firefighter training at Yokota, 1975

A member of the 475th Civil Engineering Squadron's fire protection rescue team rappels down the side of a housing unit at Yokota Air Base.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Ken Moore

Diver at Iwakuni, 1974

Petty Officer 2nd Class Ken Moore might appear to be a potential snack in the sights of a fearsome aquatic creature, but he's actually swimming in front of a search and rescue boat at the Iwakuni crash boat house.

Barbara (Bobbie) Oberhansly

Weather girl wows Saigon

Vietnam's most talked-about TV personality these days is a blue-eyed blonde named Bobbie, the Armed Forces Television weather girl currently weathering her debut in front of TV cameras.

Cummings Elementary School third-graders Kaia Fleming, right, and Danielle Goodyear show Col. Van Wimmer Jr. the links they made to celebrate the DOD's Month of the Military Child during a ceremony Friday at Misawa Air Base, Japan.

Misawa students celebrate life as military children

It’s a safe bet that this school year will be one that Cummings Elementary School students won’t soon forget.

Actor Jack Nicholson, sporting his trademark shades and leer, poses in front of a poster of himself and "Wolf" co-star Michelle Pfeiffer during a press conference at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel in 1994.

Jack Nicholson brings 'Wolf' to Japan

Undoubtedly, Jack Nicholson has always been considered to be a unusual actor.

Katsuren Castle is on the Katsuren Peninsula, overlooking both the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

Okinawa is home to many castle ruins

Okinawa is an island of castle ruins, the remains of a time when regional kings fought a series of wars that eventually led to a united Kingdom of the Ryukyus.