Photo of the day From the Stripes archives

March 4, 2005

Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes

Berlin, June 6, 1954: Two servicemen pause at the Brandenburg Gate, which is festooned with large banners for a communist youth rally taking place on the other side. The gate still bears the scars of World War II; missing is the Quadriga statue, badly damaged in the allied assault and being recast from the original mold. It was put back atop the gate in 1958.