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.
Robert McNamara in Vietnam, 1963
A banner strung across the street welcomes Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara to the Thu-Xa (Open Arms) Center, where Viet Cong deserters are rehabilitated. McNamara and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Maxwell Taylor spent several days touring the country and talking with Vietnamese and American officials. Just over a month later, one of the officials who met with McNamara and Taylor — President Ngo Dinh Diem — was ousted and killed in a military coup.
 Center, where Viet Cong deserters are rehabilitated. McNamara and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Maxwell Taylor spent several days touring the country and talking with Vietnamese and American officials. Just over a month later, one of the officials who met with McNamara and Taylor — President Ngo Dinh Diem — was ousted and killed in a military coup.
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