Elvis Presly is dead 1977
This nameplate was used in 1977
Masthead 2001
This nameplate has been in use since 2001

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.

Ella Fitzgerald in Tokyo, 1964

Ella Fitzgerald in Tokyo, 1964

Ella Fitzgerald has been packing them in at Tokyo's Koseinenkin Hall with her "fellahs" from the Roy Eldridge Quartet.

Ella Fitzgerald has been packing them in at Tokyo's Koseinenkin Hall with her "fellahs" from the Roy Eldridge Quartet. Ella Fitzgerald -  Her record's in. A record by Jazz great Ella Fitzgerald will be added to the time capsule that will be buried at the 1965 New York World's Fair. The capsule carries as a payload the record of humanities advances, failures and foibles from 1939 to 1965. The singer's recorded voice will be accompanied by other items such as a Beatles record, a piece of graphite from the first nuclear reactor, to a sample of detergent for dish washing.

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