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.
Celebrities
Famous Amos finds his fortune cookie in chocolate chip craze
But for Wally Amos, the cookie king who has cashed in on America's love affair with the chocolate chip, fame isn't the name of the game.
Legendary King and His Court reign on Far East bases
The guest shook the strong, firm right hand, gazed into the ruddy face, stared for a moment at the graying, thinning trademark flattop crew cut.
Charles and Diana in Japan, 1986
Prince Charles paints in one of the eyes of a daruma during a tour of a Nissan plant as Princess Diana (who was given 24 miniature cars as souvenirs for Princes William and Harry) watches.
Everybody asks us the same question about Marlon Brando
EVERYBODY ASKS US THE SAME QUESTION ABOUT Marlon Brando: "What's he like?" The answer isn't simple. To say what Brando is "like" would be harder than re-winding an unravelled golf ball.
What better place to say sayonara?
"I always thought of myself as an educator," Notre Dame's Dan Devine reminisced far from home Sunday in the final hours of his illustrious football coaching career.
Pilot gives Hope tough act to follow
Bob Hope and his troupe were greeted aboard this carrier by nearly 3,000 cheering sailors and some unscheduled excitement.
