80 Years of Stars and Stripes Pacific

An Osan Elementary School student poses in fighter pilot gear on Career Day at Osan Air Base, South Korea, May 9, 2025.

Career Day at South Korea fighter base fuels elementary interest in aviation

Curious, career-minded fourth- and fifth graders spent a recent afternoon collecting information from aviation professionals at the annual Career Day on this U.S. installation south of Seoul.

Raymond Burr, second from right, gets an explanation of the DMZ from Cmdr. Willis R. Hearne, second from left, the U.N. Command joint duty officer.

Raymond Burr visits soldiers in Korean DMZ area

The big man walked up to a sergeant on duty at a mountain-top outpost and stuck out his hand. "Hello sergeant," he said. "I'm Raymond Burr."

Rear Adm. John V. Smith reads a list of charges to North Korean Gen. Chung Kook Pak across the conference table at the 266 meeting of the Military Armistice Commission in April, 1968, days after four U.N. Command soldiers were killed in an ambush at the DMZ.

N. Korea tries to provoke war, says U.N. Command

U.S. Rear Adm. John V. Smith, senior negotiator for the United Nations Command (UNC) denounced Communist North Korea Thursday for "war provocation of the most serious magnitude."

A North Korean soldier on guard duty during the 417th meeting of the Military Armistice Commission glares across the border in February, 1983.

The Spirit of Panmunjom is frosty

Camp Carroll: It's big, and still growing

The newest U.S. military installation in the Republic of Korea, bearing a price tag in excess of $17 million, has been under construction since 1959 and is scheduled for completion in 1967.

This woman, who was threshing rice, remembers helping to bury eight South Korean soldiers on a nearby hill. She says no one ever came to claim them.

Dedication marks search for Korean War MIAs

The paperwork inside each case file shows its age. Decades ago, a typewriter plucked out the names and ranks.

Hank Aaron tours South Korea, visits troops, ballplayers

Baseball great "Hammerin' " Hank Aaron visited South Korea last month as a sports ambassador promoting good will everywhere he went.

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