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.
Korean War
MP checkpoint and Freedom Gate bridge en route to Munsan
A convoy of ambulances carrying sick and wounded prisoners of war cross the Freedom Gate bridge, on their way to freedom and home.
Dean begins hospital cure
An American hero of the Korean war, Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, today began a 13day treatment for amoebic dysentery in Tokyo Army Hospital, the effects of three years as a Communist prisoner of war.
'It seems like a dream,' happy Dean says
The Communists' prize prisoner returned to freedom yesterday in a tailor-made suit and a dream.
General Dean returns
Maj. Gen. William F. Dean came back today.
Dedication marks search for Korean War MIAs
The paperwork inside each case file shows its age. Decades ago, a typewriter plucked out the names and ranks.
Joe and friend
Little Ernie Joe, the 7-year-old orphan "mascot" of the Eight Army HQ's 502nd Reconnaissance Platoon, left for his new home in Texas on June 15, 1954.
A Korean orphan and 55th MP Company
7-year old Korean War orphan Yo-Yo was 'adopted' as the unit mascot of the 55th Military Police Company early 1953 after one of the unit's members found the little boy wandering the streets of Seoul.
