Atlantic Liners collide 1956
This nameplate was used in 1956
Park Slain 1979
This nameplate was used in 1979

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."

Naval personnel distribute potassium iodide pills to U.S. personnel in Japan.

U.S. bases in Japan begin distributing potassium iodide pills

The military began distributing potassium iodide pills as a precaution against radiological sickness at bases on the Japanese main island of Honshu, but emphasized that no one should take the pills unless directed.

Petty Officer 2nd Class James Rivers looks out the side of a Seahawk helicopter at the tsunami damage along the coastline of northeastern Japan during a humanitarian relief supply mission in Iwate Prefecture.

Navy crews reach quake victims with life-sustaining humanitarian aid

Petty Officer 2nd Class James Rivers became the face of the U.S. military’s humanitarian relief efforts for hundreds of Japanese people this week.

14th Fighter Squadron

Misawa's 14th Fighter Squadron looking to deploy to stay sharp

The rumors are true: Misawa’s 14th Fighter Squadron will be deployed as soon as it’s possible, according to base officials.

U.S. military family members wait to board a flight from Yokota Air Base, Japan, to Seattle, on Saturday.

First military evacuation flight leaves Japan

The first flight carrying U.S. military family members out of Japan left Yokota Air Base around 5 p.m. Saturday, beginning what could be a voluntary departure of hundreds or even thousands of Americans in coming days as concerns grow over a looming nuclear disaster.

USS Reagan

Reagan air crews pause relief operations to decontaminate

Navy officials halted air operations from USS Reagan on Wednesday so they could clean the ship of contamination from radioactive plume it hit while conducting humanitarian relief operations off the coast of Japan on March 13.

Airmen move a mock victim during the transportation stage of a training exercise in 2005 at Yokota Air Force base.

Preparing in ‘a land of earthquakes’

While the world focuses on the devastation in Haiti, millions of people in Japan — including tens of thousands of U.S. troops and their families — sit on their own seismic time bomb.