Atlantic Liners collide 1956
This nameplate was used in 1956
Atlantic Liners collide 1956
This nameplate was used in 1956

From the Archives

Indianapolis

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.

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."

Bob Hope

Bob Hope may 'pull it in' after this year's shows

Bob Hope, America's own temporary duty Santa, left little doubt Sunday that this would be his last Christmas tour for U.S. servicemen and women overseas.

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

The Spirit of Panmunjom is frosty

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, arrive in Tokyo, where they were welcomed by Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako.

Marcos arrives for Japan visit

Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos arrived here Wednesday from Honolulu for a 5-day state visit. He was met at planeside by Emperor Hirohito.

Maj. Gen. William F. Dean

Dean begins hospital cure

An American hero of the Korean war, Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, today began a 13day treatment for amoebic dysentery in Tokyo Army Hospital, the effects of three years as a Communist prisoner of war.