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
Arthur Godfrey to visit troops in Korea
Arthur Godfrey will fly to Korea for an Easter weekend visit with American troops.
Arthur Godfrey resembled a red-haired Buddha
ARTHUR GODFREY RESEMBLED A RED-HAIRED BUDDHA as he sat on the tatami of his Hotel New Japan room.
Jayne Mansfield is the original dumb blonde
JAYNE MANSFIELD IS THE ORIGINAL DUMB blonde. Dumb like a fox or Cassius Clay or the hero in "No Time for Sergeants."
Marcel Marceau talks to the press in Tokyo
MARCEL MARCEAU, THE MAN WHO HAS been hailed as "the greatest living exponent of the mime," walked into the Tokyo Press Club to meet the gentlemen of the Fourth Estate.
'Sunny Joe' Wolverton, Les Paul's mentor
RHUBARB RED AND SUNNY JOE, a swinging pair of Ozark Apple Knockers, held a long overdue reunion Wednesday night at the Grant Heights NCO Club.
Edward G. Robinson meets his match
AT TOKYO'S KABUKI-ZA THEATER SATURDAY AFTERNOON, where Steve Parker's "My Geisha" company was shooting premiere scenes for their film-within-a-film, we had lunch with the ageless and affable actor, Edward G. Robinson.
