Eight North Korean fighter jets and four bombers flew in formation and were believed to have conducted air-to-surface firing drills, South Korea’s military said.
A tourist who was killed in the Turks and Caicos Islands earlier this week when the vehicle he was traveling in was ambushed by armed gunmen has been identified as an Air Force veteran and local NAACP leader from Virginia.
Hawaiian native Jack Johnson is just happy to be able to tour and share his soothing, islands-flavored folk and soft-rock songs with the world in person.
![When Stars and Stripes’ editors compiled the first issue of the London edition of Stars and Stripes published April 18, 1942, they gave it Vol 2., Issue No. 1 in honor and acknowledgement of its WWI predecessor printed in France by and for the “doughboys” serving in the American Expeditionary Forces. The London edition was the first edition to be published during World War II. Over 30-plus Stars and Stripes editions would eventually follow, as “Stripers” reported on the Allied forces over the next three years of war and new editions were created as the fronts advanced across the European and Pacific Theaters of War.
Read more about the history of Stars and Stripes here [https://ww2.stripes.com/about-us#history/]
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