Japan
The Freedom Bird Flies Again
The first refugees out of Saigon — 54 Vietnamese orphans — arrived at Yokota AB early Thursday after a dash to freedom from an increasingly nervous South Vietnamese capital. This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, April 4, 1975. It is republished unedited in its original form.
Yokota prays with Billy Graham
Yokota Air Base worshiped with Billy Graham Sunday.
Army alpinists
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.
AWs are ‘pretty versatile’ sailors
Seawater sprays from the helicopter rotor wash as figures drop from the aircraft into the murky water.
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.
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.
Zama rolls along with Jenkins hoopla
When accused U.S. Army deserter Sgt. Charles Jenkins arrived, saluted and turned himself over to Camp Zama authorities Saturday, this small, quiet Army base outside Tokyo found itself in a very unaccustomed spot: the cross hairs of the international media.