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.
Vietnam War
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.
Marine journalist Steve Stibbens, first to cover the Vietnam War for Stars and Stripes, dies at 84
The first Stars and Stripes reporter sent to cover the Vietnam War — Marine Gunnery Sgt. Steve Stibbens — died Saturday in Dallas at age 84.
Wallace: Pressure North Vietnamese
George C. Wallace, the third party candidate in the 1968 presidential election, said here that President Nixon's address to the nation "left the door open for the application of more military pressure if the enemy escalates the war."
Vietnam: No time for aching feet
This is flat country, where a man can see for miles and where an enemy can almost make death more welcome than continued marching.
New unit makes 25th Division largest force
The 25th Inf. Div. became the largest U.S. combat force in Vietnam when the 196th Light Inf. Brigade arrived here Sunday to join up with the Tropic Lightning Div.
S&S reporter grabs a gun in bitter Viet jungle battle
Dawn, less than half a mile from the Cambodian border.
Pilots face Viet Cong in a bubble
They fly at the enemy in plastic bubbles, coming in ''low and slow.''
