Photo Of The Day Gallery | 75th Anniversary

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.

Destruction caused by enemy 122mm rocket that fell short in an attack on Tan Son Nhut Air Base.

Tan Son Nhut Air Base, 1968

Army of the Republic of Vietnam Military Police (ARVN QC) guard stands atop a guard tower at Bien Hoa POW camp, overlooking the multiple barbed wire fences that surround the camp.

Bien Hoa POW Camp, 1968

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

Ella Fitzgerald in Tokyo, 1964

Cpl. William L. Conley, 23, Morrilton, Ark., recently released from a Communist prisoner of war camp, and brother, SM Tom, 20, of the destroyer Laws, look at Tom's pictures and clippings from home during their visit on the 8167th Army Hospital sundeck.

8167th Army Hospital, 1953

F5 "Falcon" fighter jets of the 522nd Fighter Squadron of the South Vietnamese air force fly through the air on a bombing mission, the jets sillouhetted agains the sun.

South Vietnamese Air Force, 1968

Female Viet Cong prisoners sewing in their quarters.

Female Viet Cong prisoners, 1968

The inside of a cockpit of a Republic of South Vietnam air force's F5 "Falcon" at Tan Son Nhut airbase east of Saigon.

Falcon at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, 1968

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.

Panmunjom, 1953

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