From the Archives
DMZ ambush survivors seen lucky to be alive
Observers at the scene of Sunday night's bold ambush by Communist North Koreans who machine-gunned and killed four United Nations Command soldiers reached one conclusion: "I don't see how anybody survived this."
1966: Pilots face Viet Cong in a bubble
They fly at the enemy in plastic bubbles, coming in “low and slow.” These men who fly the 10 “Scout” H-13’s of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, are almost totally exposed to anyone shooting at them.
1968: Traveling doc keeps ‘em smiling in combat
The 1st Inf. Div. trooper moaned in pain as the man in the medical tunic bent over his head. Chrome instruments flashed in the dingy light.
Red Cross girls pep up troops with coffee, donuts and shows
With the 7th U.S. Inf. Div., Korea (S&S) – The “donut dollies” are keeping them smiling in the 7th Inf. Div.
Stripes Man on Scene in Saigon
When the Presidential Palace in Saigon was bombed Tuesday. Pacific Stars and Stripes Photographer M/Sgt. Al Chang was in the street near the palace preparing for a photographic assignment.
‘Flat-out, straight-up American hero’: 2 Vietnam soldiers who rescued fellow troops in combat receive Medal of Honor
Bill Johnson, a former Ohio congressman and now president of Youngstown State University, made a point Friday to say a few words to Kenneth David and shake the former soldier’s hand before he received the Medal of Honor.
1955: Korea revisited
Precisely at 8 a.m. every day a tall, lanky U.S. Army sergeant gives the word and 21 flags of the U.N. countries that fought in Korea are raised over the more than 2,000 dead who still rest in the only U.N. cemetery in the world.