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.
Mark Hamill at Kinnick, 1978
Mark Hamill, better known to many as young Jedi Luke Skywalker of Star Wars fame, signs yearbooks and other items for students and staff of Nile C. Kinnick High School. Hamill - in Japan on a publicity junket for the July 1st opening of "Star Wars" in Tokyo and Osaka - took a sentimental detour to his old alma mater which he attended as a military brat when his father - a Navy Exchange officer - was stationed at Yokosuka.
