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.
Biden ends Trump-ordered ban on transgender service members
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday ended the Pentagon’s ban on most transgender men and women joining the military, fulfilling a campaign promise to undo one of President Donald Trump’s signature Pentagon policies.
Fair-like area greets PWs
FREEDOM VILLAGE, Apr. 21 — Freedom Village, first stopping place for captured Allied personnel on their way home from Communist confinement, might well have been the spot of a county fair yesterday except for the serious business at hand.
Hero set for 15-day treatment of disease contracted as PW
TOKYO, Sept. 7 — 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.
Hank Aaron swings away again in Japan
TOKYO — It's been a year of re-enactment of sorts for major league baseball's all-time home run king, Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, from the year 1974 that brought with it rich memories for the millions of fans in the U.S.
Aaron outslugs Oh in homer contest 10-9
TOKYO — Hank Aaron, the Atlanta Braves' top slugger and the No.
‘We did it’: Viral tweet helps Air Force veteran reconnect with long lost South Korean family
Air Force veteran Isabelle Hyon DuCharme had spent nearly a decade attempting to find her mother’s family in South Korea — but it took just three days for the internet to find her relatives after her request for help went viral.
Bungalows sprout in the boondocks
TAY NINH, Vietnam — Two days' comfort in a bungalow motel with swimming pool and patio must seem as far away as a weekend in Miami to the field soldiers who daily live in mud and sweat along the edge of War Zone C.
41st PO — Down among sheltering palms
TAY NINH, Vietnam — The flat plain of Tay Ninh Base Camp, eight miles from the Cambodian border, might seem a strange place for a "Stateside" post office, but there one sits.
There's 'no sweat' riding (outside) copter
WITH U.S. 24TH DIV., Korea (S&S) — Sometimes a soldier balks at flying on his back outside a helicopter, 700 feet in the air.
Civilian part of ship's tech team
ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK — George Webb has, as they say in the Navy, more time in the bathroom aboard ship than many of the sailors on the USS Kitty Hawk.
