Nine Red Cross registered nurses and volunteers, all of them wives of Air Force men stationed in Japan, returned from a “babylift” flight carrying Vietnamese orphans to the United States and said they’d “make the trip again anytime.” This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Apr. 9, 1975. It is republished unedited in its original form.

U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. Edward S. Kovaleski will be interred Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery, and U.S. Army Air Forces Tech. Sgt. Sanford G. Roy will be interred Tuesday at Chattanooga National Cemetery in Tennessee.

Some 27,000 Vietnam veterans’ recordings, videos, photographs, drawings, letters and other documents are stored by the Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project in a collection that’s still growing.

As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes.

The first refugees out of Saigon — 54 Vietnamese orphans — arrived at Yokota AB early Thursday after a dash to freedom from an increasingly nervous South Vietnamese capital. This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, April 4, 1975. It is republished unedited in its original form.

World War II veterans returned to Okinawa to commemorate the “devastating” battle that lasted from April 1 to June 22, 1945.

The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert D. McKee, who was killed during World War II, will be interred with full military honors April 4 at Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City, Nev.

John McClelland Elliott, a historian and Marine aviation veteran who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, died on March 22. He was 101.

Judy Haag of Greendale, Wis., joined the American Red Cross as a Clubmobile girl and was assigned to the unit at Ascom Area Command headquarters in Korea. Since November, Judy like the 50 other Red Cross Clubmobile girls, has traveled thousands of miles by Army truck, helicopter and light plane.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Judy Haag, one of some 50 Red Cross women operating the organization’s Clubmobiles across South Korea, hands out donuts to a service member in April 1959.