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From the Archives

The bullet-riddled truck in which four United Nations Command soldiers — two Americans and two South Koreans — were killed in an ambush at the Korean DMZ in April, 1968.

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."

DODDS

DODDS to help returning students catch up on studies

Students now returning to Japan after evacuating to the United States should bring as much proof as possible of school work done in recent weeks, Department of Defense Dependent Schools Pacific officials said Wednesday.

First Sgt. Yoshihiro Kamamoto, a member of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, helps unload a pallet of donated blankets from a U.S. Navy C-130 on Sunday at Misawa Air Base, Japan.

Relief supplies rolling into Misawa

With life slowly creeping back to normal at Misawa, attention has now turned to Operation Tomodachi, the U.S. military’s humanitarian relief efforts to assist communities devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunamis that pounded northeastern Japan.

Susan Hinds, an amateur photographer on Misawa Air Base, Japan, snapped this photo of a Japanese Macaque loose on the base on July 26.

Misawa residents warned: Do not approach the wild monkey

Security forces personnel have received dozens of calls in the last 10 days reporting a 3-foot, 65-pound intruder on the base.

Gemini Sanford poses with one of the orphans at the Bikou-en Children's Care House in Shichinohe, Japan.

Radio station-inspired aid finally headed to Japan orphanages

An estimated $1.2 million worth of earthquake and tsunami relief supplies collected in the Pacific Northwest are finally en route to Misawa Air Base, where they will be doled out to orphanages and hard-hit coastal areas.

U.S. military commanders on Okinawa ordered a limited evacuation of coastal areas for all DOD  personnel shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday, and Japanese officials ordered the evacuation of more than 4,000 people living along the coastline near Misawa Air Base in mainland Japan.

Evacuations ordered at Misawa, Okinawa bases amid tsunami fears

U.S. military commanders on Okinawa ordered a limited evacuation of coastal areas for all DOD personnel shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday, and Japanese officials ordered the evacuation of more than 4,000 people living along the coastline near Misawa Air Base in mainland Japan.

Richard Clark, 35th Fighter Wing historian, explains Thursday how a couple of airmen accidentally discovered what is believed to be a World War II-era, Japanese military bunker in the woods on Misawa Air Base, Japan.

Misawa aims to turn 'rediscovered' WWII-era bunker into museum

A possible World War II-era bunker that survived the intense U.S. bombing of the area more than 60 years ago might be turned into a museum, if base officials have their way.