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This nameplate was used in 1945
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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."

The Japanese battleship Mikasa.

Yokosuka: Battleship Mikasa ship museum offers a glimpse at old Japanese navy

Within sight of Green Bay at Yokosuka Naval Base sits a Japanese maritime warfare legend.The battleship Mikasa, which played a pivotal role in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, is preserved at Mikasa Park, a five-minute walk from the base.

Seaman Gerson Rodriguez, 20, of California, signs out from the USS Kitty Hawk last week to enjoy liberty in Pusan, South Korea.

7th Fleet still rewarding good behavior

Despite the recent problems with a few sailors on leave, the Navy plans to keep using the 7th Fleet’s Exceptional Sailor Program, a three-year-old policy that affords lower-ranking sailors more liberty options in return for good behavior.

Sailors from the Yokosuka, Japan-based USS John S. McCain help dig out a school for the mentally challenged Tuesday in the city of Otaru on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.

USS McCain sailors lend helping hand on Japanese island of Hokkaido

Sailors from the USS John S. McCain paid a visit last week to Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, where they played a game of hoops with high school students and helped dig out a school for the mentally challenged from more than 6 feet of snow.

As part of an Eagle Scout project he planned and supervised, Daniel Polaski, 13, helps clear debris from a bridge and shrine site that had been overgrown with vegetation.

Scouts shine as they clean shrine

Tucked away in a thicket of jungle, here, a historic shrine lay virtually inaccessible.

Rough withdrawal

Rough withdrawal

Men of the Colombian Battalion - most probably 3rd Platoon, Company A of the 1st Colombian Infantry Battalion - and their South Korean Army counterparts carry one of their wounded men down Hill 400 after the conclusion of a successful raid on the hill.

Ingrid Bergma

Ingrid Bergman visits home of real heroine

Actress Ingrid Bergman paid a nostalgic visit to the Gladys Aylward Children's Home in Tien Mou Monday during a stopover in Taipei en route to Bangkok.