North Korea Hijacs U.S. Naval Vessel 1968
This nameplate was used in 1968
North Korea Hijacs U.S. Naval Vessel 1968
This nameplate was used in 1968

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.

Maj. Gen. William F. Dean

'It seems like a dream,' happy Dean says

The Communists' prize prisoner returned to freedom yesterday in a tailor-made suit and a dream.

General Dean

General Dean returns

Maj. Gen. William F. Dean came back today.

Camp Carroll

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.

Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn of Thailand receives an honorary degree from Seoul National University in 1967.

North Vietnam will sue for peace, says Thanom

Hanoi will come to the negotiation table under conditions favorable to the Allied nations now fighting Vietnam in the not too distant future, visiting Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn predicted Wednesday.

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.

Comparing the beards grown during their ordeal are Capt. Walter Wesley, left, Capt. Walter Brown, center, and Capt. William Carpenter.

Chotto Matte

CADET WILLIAM S. CARPENTER READ THOSE words blazoned on the gymnasium wall at West Point when he gained football fame as Army's "lonesome end" in 1958 and reaped All-America honors as team captain in 1959.