This website was created and maintained from May 2020 to May 2021 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Stars and Stripes operations in the Pacific.
It will no longer be updated, but we encourage you to explore the site and view content we felt best illustrated Stars and Stripes' continued support of the Pacific theater since 1945.
MP checkpoint and Freedom Gate bridge en route to Munsan
The journey back to freedom continues for United Nations prisoners of war as a southbound convey of ambulances proceeds slowly past an MP checkpoint and crosses Freedom Gate bridge en route to Munsan.
By Frank Praytor | Stars and Stripes April 23, 1953
A convoy of ambulances carrying sick and wounded prisoners of war cross the Freedom Gate bridge, on their way to freedom and home. Two groups of 50 Allied POW each were released April 20, 1953 in exchange for 500 sick and wounded communist fighters. There were 14 Americans in the first group, 16 in the second.
