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.
Chief of Army Nurse Corps tours Zama Hospital
The first woman general in the 196-year history of the U.S. Army, Brig. Gen. Anna M. Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, said Tuesday that it was wrong to compare her job to that of a division commander because she functions purely in a staff position despite the fact that she has roughly 21,000 people under her supervision.
Jimmy Doolittle, ex-foes recall the Tokyo raid
To hear Jimmy Doolittle tell it, his fabled raid on Tokyo was as much quixotic as heroic, a pinprick thrust in which only slight damage was inflicted on the enemy and the real target could not even be seen.
Baseball fever grips the bases in Japan
"Play ball!" echoes across sandlots and manicured fields in overseas American communities on military bases.
'Skunk hunt' is routine for USS Fife's crew
Under a bright half moon, the Gulf of Oman shines like liquid silver as this destroyer cruises across the waterway on its nightly search for skunks, bogies and goblins.
Mother Teresa critical of Japan on abortions
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mother Teresa Friday criticized the "terrible number of abortions" in Japan, and said that an affluent nation permitting so many abortions "must be a poor country."
In minutes ... rescue ... death
From the distance, about 300 yards away, the DC-8 looked like an exploded cigar.