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.

Outnumbered GIs chop up attackers

Fewer than 200 U.S. defenders, backed by massive air support, blasted apart a Red battalion as it tried to overrun their tiny patrol base near the Cambodian border, military spokesmen reported Saturday.

American troops on the move near the Cambodian border in April, 1969.

Charged-up Reds paying heavily

The remarkable thing about the battles of Diamond — there have been four of them — is the purity of the brand of war fought on the desolate plain that surrounds the camp.

The longest day for 2 companies ... and the last for 198 attacking North Viets

It was a long day for Companies A and D of the 2nd Bn., 27th Inf. It began at 4:30 a.m. and ended at dawn Tuesday. When it did, a lot of people were dead.

Maj. Robert M. Campbell, right, an American adviser from Fayetteville, N.C., points the way to a helicopter that will bring a wounded Vietnamese ranger, at center, to a hospital.

Long ride home for a wounded Vietnam fighter

The ticket for that long ride home doesn't come cheaply in the Republic of Vietnam. This man, a Vietnamese ranger, gave his right hand.

A little girl, hit in the shoulder by a slug from an aircraft machine gun, is tended to by a medic before being evacuated to a hospital by South Vietnamese troops.

A tale of war: There are tears, dirt, blood, irony and no favorites

There's nothing very nice about any kind of war, whether it's global or just an "untidy little war" like the battle against communism here.

Pfc. Frank Orians of Grand Rapids, Mich., escorts Secretary of Defense McNamara and his entourage on a walk into an unsecured jungle area in Vietnam.

Dawn-to-dusk days for JFK's top advisers

America's top military leaders sloshed through muddy remote villages of the strife-torn Republic of Vietnam to learn first-hand how the war against the Viet Cong is going.