Phillip Walter Wellman
Reporter and Photographer at Stars and Stripes
Reporter/photographer for @starsandstripes.
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3 weeks ago |
stripes.com | Phillip Walter Wellman
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks March 31, 2025, in Sochaczew, Poland, at the signing of a $2 billion agreement with the United States for training and logistical support tied to its Patriot missile defense systems.
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1 month ago |
stripes.com | Phillip Walter Wellman
Lester Schrenk, who served as an Army B-17 ball turret gunner during World War II, stands in the forest outside Tychowo, Poland, on March 22, 2025, where he was detained as a prisoner of war 80 years earlier. (Phillip Walter Wellman/Stars and Stripes) TYCHOWO, Poland — The last time Lester Schrenk stood in this dense patch of forest in what is now northwestern Poland, there were no trees here.
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1 month ago |
stripes.com | Phillip Walter Wellman
Priscilla Presley gazes at a bronze statue of her former husband, Elvis Presley, in Bad Nauheim, Germany, March 20, 2025. Priscilla met Elvis in the spa town in 1959, when she was 14. (Phillip Walter Wellman/Stars and Stripes) BAD NAUHEIM, Germany — Priscilla Presley has fond memories of studying at a U.S. Air Force-run high school in Wiesbaden, Germany, in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, although she admits she wasn’t in class often.
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1 month ago |
legion.org | Phillip Walter Wellman
Army’s arrival in Kaiserslautern on March 20, 1945, marked the beginning of a decades-long relationship that would see the U.S. military shape the economy and identity of the city and surrounding area like nowhere else in Europe. Gen. George Patton’s Third Army faced little resistance as it advanced through southwest Germany into a small industrial city scarred from years of Allied bombing.
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1 month ago |
stripes.com | Phillip Walter Wellman
In a photo taken by a Pfc. Warner of the 166th Signal Photo Co., a U.S. Third Army soldier guards German prisoners in the public square in Kaiserslautern, Germany, as other soldiers mill about, March 21, 1945. The Army seized the southwest German city from the Nazis a day earlier. Today people would recognize the 23rd Monument at center and the Fruchthalle at right. (U.S. National Archives/Signal Corps Archive) KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Gen.
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ICYMI: 80 years ago, Patton’s Army rolled into what is now the largest US military community overseas https://t.co/MXbtSuKxS9
Priscilla Presley revisited the German town where she met Elvis, sharing memories of military high school, Cold War Germany and life with the King. More: https://t.co/uBepHmlitT https://t.co/4gwZQQxwBf
At 101, American WWII veteran returns to Polish forest where he was once a POW https://t.co/YsY4G036F4