From the Archives
Nearly 70 years after USS Indianapolis tragedy, survivor tells his tale
Just past midnight July 30, 1945, two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine struck the USS Indianapolis with almost 1,200 people aboard.
Stripes Man on Scene in Saigon
When the Presidential Palace in Saigon was bombed Tuesday. Pacific Stars and Stripes Photographer M/Sgt. Al Chang was in the street near the palace preparing for a photographic assignment.
‘Flat-out, straight-up American hero’: 2 Vietnam soldiers who rescued fellow troops in combat receive Medal of Honor
Bill Johnson, a former Ohio congressman and now president of Youngstown State University, made a point Friday to say a few words to Kenneth David and shake the former soldier’s hand before he received the Medal of Honor.
1955: Korea revisited
Precisely at 8 a.m. every day a tall, lanky U.S. Army sergeant gives the word and 21 flags of the U.N. countries that fought in Korea are raised over the more than 2,000 dead who still rest in the only U.N. cemetery in the world.
1959: Close Look at the Reds
Want to see a real live communist?
The men of Outpost Maizie, on the Demilitarized Zone in Korea, see them all the time. What’s more, they get to show off “their” commies to visitors — such as General L. L. Lemnitzer, Red Skelton, Red Barber, Bob Hope, John Ford, to name a few.
50,000 ROK Troops deployed in combat test
Operation Killing Zone, largest military field exercise since the founding of the First Republic of Korea Army, recently deployed 50,000 troops in a maneuver conducted under simulated atomic conditions.
A DMZ Wish — Rain, rain stay away
With the 1ST ROK DIV., Korea — Farmers in the Republic of Korea may pray for rain, but ROK soldiers manning the Demilitarized Zone here dread the annual summer deluge as a season of mud.