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.
Laugh With The Girls, 1962
RAISING LAUGHS - Singer-comedienne Alliene Flanery acknowledges the applause of enthusiastic spectators as she completes one of her numbers at the service club at Tan Son Nhut Airfield. Flanery - who toured the Pacific back in 1959 with the Dave Ketchem Show - returned this time with the USO show "Laugh With The Girls." The show, headed by comedian and electric guitarist Jack LeMaire has been touring the Far East since January.
