By the time he was 20 he was out of the Marine Corps and playing violin professionally. To thousands of U.S.When John Philip was 13, he was enlisted into the United States Marine Corps as an apprentice musician where he studied harmony, composition, and violin. Tribune, on the other hand, is still privately publishedīy the Stars and Stripes Omnimedia Corporation and is sold primarily militaryīases both in the United States and overseas. It is distributed by the Department of Defense on U.S. forces in Korea, bothĭuring and after the Korean War (1950-1953), and the VietnameseĬonflict (1963-1975), and the Persian Gulf War (1991). Since then this same Stars and Stripes has publishedĮuropean editions as well as Pacific editions for the U.S. Means of reaching troops located on hundreds of Pacific islandsĪnd in several Asian countries until the end of the war in September Was dependent on the availability of air transports, the only effective In Honolulu by the Headquarters of the Pacific. In the Pacific theater, theįirst edition of Stars and Stripes was published on Betweenġ9 official editions were published in all European andĪfrican theaters of operation, including Italy, Sicily, France, It was administered by the Office of War Information in the newlyĮstablished Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. military newspaper for Armedįorces personnel stationed overseas. Steady subscriptions, and in 1926 it merged with the Nationalĭuring World War II, Stars and Stripes was againĬhosen as the name of the official U.S. This new group, however, was unable to sustain It too, published a newspaper called StarsĪnd Stripes that competed with the National Tribuneįor the veteran market. Organized a new Washington-based publishing house known as the StarsĪnd Stripes Corporation. Military's Stars and Stripes, some of its staff members On June 14, 1919, immediately following suspension of the U.S. To over half a million and the staff grew to 300. Due to its popularity the circulation increased Published on Februby a staff of eight, and limited Pershing, it was intended to provide uncensored Stripes was published in Paris during World War I for theĪmerican Expeditionary Force (A.E.F.). The first official military publication called Stars and The same composite name: National Tribune Stars and Stripes To publish the newspaper for veterans of U.S. Publication prior to World War I, a private corporation continued (G.A.R.) initiated a new publication, the National Tribune,Ī newspaper for Civil War Union veterans later, the banner StarsĪnd Stripes was added to its masthead. Sixteen years later, in October 1877, the Grand Army of the Republic Of soldiers publishing news for the troops. Although thisīloomfield edition was a one-issue phenomenon, it started a tradition The first known edition of a newspaper for the troops was publishedīy soldiers from the 18th and 29th Illinois Volunteers on presses Grant defeatedĬonfederate forces in Bloomfield, Missouri. In November 1861, Union troops under General Ulysses S. That discuss the journalists who accompanied U.S. This guide focuses on the Library of Congress holdings of StarsĪnd Stripes, as well as books in the Library's collection Military Newspapers in the Library of Congress, Main Reading Room, Researcher and Reference Services Division, Library of Congress) The Library of Congress > Researchers
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