Black Virgin Mountain, Vietnam: A soldier outside the “Nui Ba Den Post Exchange and Mail Room” checks out an issue of the Pacific Stars and Stripes that was just delivered.

Although not the U.S. Postal Service, Stars and Stripes’ logistic men managed to get the paper even onto the rocky outpost atop Black Virgin Mountain (Nui Ba Den), a solitary block of granite that juts 3,200 feet in the air above Tay Ninh, South Vietnam. All supplies have to be delivered by helicopter.

Throughout the decades, Stars and Stripes has used whatever means needed to get a paper copy to its readers, whether by helicopter, jeep or donkey.

Find out more about Stars and Stripes Pacific’s history on our special 80th anniversary section here.