Photo Of The Day Gallery | 80th Anniversary

Unidentified servicemembers sit around smoking and drinking Pepsi Cola as the South Vietnamese landscape is visible behind them through the opening of the hut.

Di An base camp, 1969

Birds-eye-view of the new Hardy Barracks office of the Pacific Stars and Stripes, taken after 1962.

Pacific Stars and Stripes Office, 1962

500-pound bombs are lined up on the flight deck of the USS America before being loaded onto jet planes. Visible behind the ammunition is a A-7A Corsair II (left) and a A-6A Intruder.

USS America flight deck, 1968

Sgt. Robert S. Blue, alias "Little Boy Blue," blows his horn daily for retreat at Camp Casey, headquarters of the U.S. 7th Inf. Div. in Korea. Blue is a member of the 7th Inf. Div. Band.

Little Boy Blue, 1963

Some 125 families have moved out of Washington Heights 500 block so far to make way for an Olympic Gymnasium, part of the Olympic Village that will be home to thousands of althletes for the 1964 Olympics. Destruction of the 500 block will begin in December.[cg]

Washington Heights, 1962

A member of the flight deck crew of the USS America signals to a helicopter approaching for a landing on the air carriers flight deck.

USS America flight deck, 1968

Aerial view of the USS America. Air planes line the flight deck of the aircraft carrier as it participates in Operation Sea Dragon of the North Vietnames shore.

USS America, 1969

Lance Cpl. Nick Romano washes up as Company Commander Lanham Jr. hangs a captured hammock between two Amtracs (LTVs) with the help of another Marine.

Operation Pipestone Canyon, 1969