Atlantic Liners collide 1956
This nameplate was used in 1956
North Korea Hijacs U.S. Naval Vessel 1968
This nameplate was used in 1968

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."

Traditional Korean dresses called hanboks are available on racks near Gyeonghoeru, a structure surrounded by a pond lined with trees, for those who’d like to dress up for a photograph.

Gyeongbok Palace is a national treasure

On most afternoons, a stroll by the massive stone and wood gates of Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul will find royal guards holding their posts as they did 500 years before.

Frank Sinatra, onstage at Tokyo's Budokan Hall in April, 1985.

At $580, Sinatra isn't singing for my supper

Ol' Blue Eyes is back — and My Way is having things his way.

Young family

Air Force family gets long-awaited girl

A Korean orphan got her six-month-old birthday present Tuesday — five brothers and a new home.

U.S. sailors and members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force work Friday to rebuild a snow sculpture that collapsed in unseasonably warm weather on Thursday at the Sapporo Snow Festival.

Misawa sailors' Sapporo snow anchor drops with warm temperatures

Unseasonably warm temperatures spelled disaster this week for a U.S. Navy team participating in the annual Sapporo Snow Festival on the northern island of Hokkaido.

Harlan Sanders

Colonel Sanders in Tokyo, 1972

"I don't believe in being the richest man in the cemetery ... do what you're going to do with your money as you go along," is how Col. Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, explains his philosophy towards wealth.

Freedom Village

Fair-like area greets PWs

Freedom Village, first stopping place for captured Allied personnel on their way home from Communist confinement, might well have been the spot of a county fair yesterday except for the serious business at hand.