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.
Philippines
Manila rolls out red carpet for six world leaders
The city was set for an enthusiastic welcome Sunday for President Johnson and five other chiefs of state arriving for a 7-nation summit conference.
'The first thing I'm going to do ...'
The last time Maj. Jay R. Jensen saw his little girl she was a moppet of 10. She has yet to turn 17, but is already married — and Jensen is a grandfather.
Rousing welcome greets 20 more returnees at Clark
Twenty American returnees from North Vietnamese captivity landed at this base Sunday night and were given a larger and more rousing welcome than another group, seven times as large, that landed six days before.
USAF 'Mounties' ready to ride
The only existing horse patrol in the United States Air Force is located here at Clark AB, and though the program has been in existence since 1958, it's not covered by any military job description or regulation.
P.I. cheers Ike plea for unity
President Eisenhower praised constructive nationalism at a packed joint session of the Philippine Congress Wednesday and branded Russia and Red China as colonialists who fear nationalism.
16 Filipinos 'join' Christ on crosses
Two Filipinos allowed themselves to be nailed to crosses here Friday, joining a reported 15 other people around the country who re-enacted the crucifixion of Jesus Christ nearly 2,000 years ago.
Aquino, in Japan, receives promise of financial support
Philippines President Corazon Aquino prepared Tuesday for talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone after getting a loan commitment of $247 million in construction aid for her financially ailing country.
