Vietnam War

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.

Weather girl wows Saigon

Vietnam's most talked-about TV personality these days is a blue-eyed blonde named Bobbie, the Armed Forces Television weather girl currently weathering her debut in front of TV cameras.

Part of VC's headquarters uncovered in jungle

American infantrymen found part of the Viet Cong's supreme headquarters in a hidden jungle enclave north of Tay Ninh, a U.S. general said Sunday.

It's up and over the ladder on the rugged 100-yard infiltration course for South Vietnamese army recruits at the 18th ARVN Training Center near Gia Rai, 52 miles northeast of Saigon.

Tough springboard to valor

The South Vietnamese soldier is tough — he has to be, he's up against a tough opponent.

Reds flee advancing U.S. units

U.S. troops found at least seven hastily-evacuated enemy base camps Saturday as communist forces fled the massive American thrust in Operation Junction City.

Paratroopers drop into VC stronghold

TAY NINH, Vietnam — The U.S.

Seabees build a bridge on Route 1 between Phu Loc and Lang Co, South Vietnam, in 1967.

Blood, sweat, guts keep road open

"CUT their supply lines and bleed the Americans to death on the DMZ," the Communist order read.

Retired Lt. Col. Ben Purcell still has some of the items with him when he was released from 62 months of captivity in Viet Cong prison camps from 1968 to 1972.

Former POW tells how he survived

Retired Lt. Col. Ben Purcell said he never gave up hope as he passed years in the steamy jungles of Vietnam, a barely-fed prisoner of war who endured despite harsh conditions.