Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
January
2, 2005
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Wiesbaden,
Germany, January 3, 1951: Little Deborah Bigby wasn't the first
baby born on New Year's Day, 1951, to the U.S. military community in Germany —
two others beat her to it — but she might have been the most photogenic. Here
she "poses" with her mom, Louise; dad is T/Sgt. Sidney Bigby of the
1st Radio Relay Squadron at Wiesbaden Air Base. And Deborah wasn't the only new
arrival in the room; it was also the first Stripes photo assignment for Red
Grandy, who went on to provide the paper with some of its best shots for nearly
40 years.