Photo of the day From the Stripes archives

May 10, 2006

Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes

Mildenhall, England, November 30, 1978: The sun sets between the tails of two KC-135 refueling tankers at the U.S. air base at Mildenhall. The planes were on a stop-over from their base in the U.S. after in-flight fueling of aircraft taking part in a NATO exercise.