80 Years of Stars and Stripes Pacific

A black and white photo of people, mostly men in suits, walking while holding photos of Martin Luther King Jr.

700 hail King in Osan march

More than 700 American military men of all races and ranks marched in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Sunday, climaxing a weekend tribute here to the slain civil rights leader.

Evangelist Billy Graham conducts a Sunday service at Yokota Air Base in January, 1994.

Yokota prays with Billy Graham

Yokota Air Base worshiped with Billy Graham Sunday.

A bit wobbly but easy method of crossing ravines and rivers is this three rope bridge. An instructor shows the proper way of crossing.

DURING A FOUR-WEEK course at what is probably the toughest school in Japan, men scale cliffs using only finger and toe holds, leap off into space from dizzying heights in practice falls and climb over mountains with full packs in pitch darkness.

Search-and-rescue swimmers from Atsugi-based HS-14 are hoisted into their helicopter during annual SAR jump training outside Yokosuka Naval Base.

AWs are ‘pretty versatile’ sailors

Seawater sprays from the helicopter rotor wash as figures drop from the aircraft into the murky water.

Volunteers building a home for 77 orphans

The sound of hammers and saws and the smell of paint and plaster fill the air as men of the 6146th Air Force Advisory Group work to build a permanent home, for 77 children of the Sungnam Orphanage.

The keel of the Midway makes a rare appearance.

Flattop getting facelift in dry dock at Yokosuka

Though its crew proudly remembers the aircraft carrier Midway as the queen bee of the U.S. 7th Fleet, the vessel looks more like a beached whale nowadays.

Mount Suribachi, as seen from a plane carrying Iwo Jima flag raiser Rene Gagnon and his family to the island in February, 1965.

Flag raiser's return to Iwo Jima: 'It all seems impossible'

"It seems impossible that I climbed that far," said Rene Gagnon as he looked down the rugged face of Mount Suribachi.

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