Stars and Stripes (newspaper)

The Stars and Stripes is a newspaper and Internet publication that is published for the troops of the American armed forces. It appears, among others, as a European issue ( European Edition ), Middle East Edition ( Mideast Edition) and Pacific edition (Pacific Edition ); Place of publication is Washington, D.C. Publisher is currently Max D. Lederer, Jr. The history of the newspaper goes to 1861 back as the 11th, 18th, and 29th Illinois Regiment in Bloomfield (Missouri ), the newspaper laying on during the American Civil War for internal purposes.

The European headquarters of the magazine is based in Kaiserslautern since 2008. The editorial staff in Kaiserslautern is responsible for the European and Middle -East issue. The support for Germany is 15,000 pieces. After the Second World War she established herself for the first time in 1945 in the Pfungstadt. They then had a total circulation of 600,000 copies. Then in 1949 the company moved to the Stars & Stripes Compound. This was in direct proximity to the August- Euler airport. The European headquarters of the American army newspaper was there in a former air Barracks ( previously, from 1919, barracks Garnier du Plessis ) housed the flyer station Darmstadt.

In the newspaper the comic series Downrange appears.