Memories with Stars and Stripes
A collection of reader submitted Memories with Stars and Stripes Pacific.
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‘He never came back’: Marine family helps add WWII medic’s name to Okinawa memorial
ITOMAN, Okinawa — Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his name has been added to a
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Okinawa-based Marine gets medal for role in WWII remains recovery on Guadalcanal
A Marine has been honored for helping recover American troops’ remains from a World War II battlefield in the Solomon Islands.
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Japanese soldier killed in Battle of Okinawa ID’d by DNA, a first for Japan
Human remains discovered on Okinawa in 2004 have been identified as those of a Japanese soldier, marking the first time DNA alone was used to confirm the identity of a casualty from the Battle of Okinawa.
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Air Force colonel takes over Korea-based fighter wing once commanded by her husband
It is the second time Col. Kathryn Gaetke has taken a leadership role previously held by her husband, Col. Matthew Gaetke, also an F-16 pilot.
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Great-grandson of fallen B-29 pilot makes pilgrimage to WWII crash site in Japan
Tyler Smith, a recreation planner from San Francisco, recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the memory of his great-grandfather, one of five American airmen killed when their B-29 Superfortress crashed during a World War II bombing raid over Japan.
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Medal of Honor upgrade sought for recon Marine injured in Vietnam
In April 1967 near the village of Phu Loc in South Vietnam, Maj. James Capers Jr. charged ahead to free his injured men from an enemy assault even though the attack, initiated by claymore mines, ripped open his abdomen and broke his leg.