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.
Badly wounded, he plays dead as Reds kick him
"The Viet Cong used my chest for a gun rest. Each time he fired he took hunks of meat out of my arm. ..."
U.S. troops help build schools, skills, better lives for Philippine villagers
For Spc. Joshua Phillips, coming to the Philippines for Balikatan 2003 offered a chance to try new foods — including dog — and interact with his combat-hardened Philippine peers.
Fonda protests Japan ban; troupe awaits government ruling
Actress Jane Fonda charged Wednesday that her FTA (Free the Army) troupe was denied formal entry into Japan after Japanese consular officials had assured them they could come in as non-profit entertainers on tourist visas.
Suite in hotel where MacArthur stayed preserves artifacts from his storied career
Strolling through the MacArthur Suite at the Manila Hotel on Manila Bay, Philippines, it’s easy to imagine the great general at his desk, puffing on a corncob pipe and pondering some military problem.
Flying high — and low — at Balikatan
Flying airplanes for a living can be a tricky business.
Philippines to make ex-US bases center of new air-sea hub
When Mount Pinatubo erupted in June 1991, a typhoon drenched the massive ash plume, spawning a gray sludge that swamped much of the Philippines’ northernmost island, Luzon.
