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.

Viet Cong prisoners pass through the prison camp.

Bien Hoa prisoner of war camp, 1968

Miller with young Donny; Korean orphan heads for home in Indiana. Big-eyed little Donny stares out of the cockpit as he sits on his adoptive father's lap.

Korean orphan adoption, 1956

Viet Cong working in the POW camp kitchen.

POW camp kitchen, 1968

Fresh troops disembark from their airplane at an unidentified airport in Vietnam.

Airport in Vietnam, 1968

Sp4 Granson Smith of Chicago - just arrived in country with the 6th Battalion, 31st Infantry, 9th Infantry Division troops - plays with a dog as he waits for his unit to move out of the airport onto their next destination.

9th Infantry Division troops, 1968

STOCK IS CHECKED at the 6th Medical Depot, Ascom, Korea, by Sgt. Jose Burgos (left), assistant non-commissioned officer in charge of the loose issue section, and Sgt. Felipe Borrios (right), stock checker.

6th Medical Depot, 1959

Fresh troops walk down the tarmac in Vietnam after having disembarked from the airplane. They are members of the 6th Battalion, 31st Infantry, 9th Infantry Division.

9th Infantry Division, 1968

Sp5 Heinz Huder of Palm Bay, Florida - his right foot in a cast - walks at an unidentified airport in South Vietnam.

South Vietnam, 1968

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