MacArthur relieved of command 1951
This nameplate was used in 1951
Masthead 1989
This nameplate was used in 1989

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."

Ali

Ali, Mac exchange insults at weigh-in

"I'll give you until noon tomorrow to get out of town!" Muhammad Ali stormed at Mac Foster Friday. "And you better be on a fast horse!"

Ali

Ali is just too much for Foster

Playing the jester on the ropes, Muhammad Ali Saturday pounded pretender-contender Mac Foster into sightless, stumbling wreckage to win a unanimous 15-round decision and retain his right to challenge the only man who ever defeated him.

Air Force Capt. John S. Gunnison, who took part in the World War II invasion of Iwo Jima as a Marine 15 years earlier, walks along the beach toward Mt. Suribachi during his first visit to the island since the battle.

Marines returning in peace to hard-won Iwo

The U.S. Marines will land on Iwo Jima and secure Mt. Suribachi Friday for the second time in 15 years.

South Vietnam, July, 1965: A fire mission caught Sgt. Homer Charnock of Bravo Battery, 319th Artillery, in the middle of shaving.

Too young for Korea, they're real pros now

Pvt. Bobbie L. Tucker, now an artillery man in Vietnam, can scarcely recall the day in 1953 when an armistice was signed in Korea to end 3½ years of bloody conflict.

In March, 1958: John Rockefeller, center, teaches English grammar to Yukihiro Wada, left, and Hirofume Ando during a study session at International Christian University in Tokyo, where he is an exchange student and part-time teacher.

Young Rockefeller's a 'big man' at ICU

Young John Rockefeller, scion of America's multimillionaire family, is a "big man on the campus" near here.

David Douglas Duncan, one of America's top photographers, found himself on the other end of the lens during a May, 1966 visit to Tokyo.

Famed lensman David Douglas Duncan still working hard

Fifteen years ago, a young LIFE magazine photographer named David Douglas Duncan caught the weary, mud-spattered face of a young U.S. Marine sergeant as he ducked enemy fire and slogged past a dead north Korean on the banks of the Naktong River.