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.
Panmunjom, 1953
U.N. prisoners of war peer through windows of communist ambulances as they arrive at Panmunjom April 20, 1953 for repatriation and exchange with Red captives. An allied prisoner of war peers out the window of an ambulance as it speeds by, a smile on his blurred face. 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.
