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FOREWORD

The Pacific Stars and Stripes has reported the sweetness of victory and the bitterness of retreat of the American soldier in Korea, and his United Nations companions, since the start of the Korean war, June 25, 1950. The newspaper has followed him up and down the Korea peninsula, from Pusan to the Yalu River.

Staff correspondents have been with the infantry at the Punchbowl, Heartbreak Ridge and Inchon. They have flown with the Air Force over Sunchon, Sinuiju and Hamhung, and they sailed with the Navy up and down both coasts. Pacific Stars and Stripes men have reported faithfully the dogged determination, the courage and the peculiar flavor of the Korean War. 

But probably an even more accurate reflection of the United Nations forces in Korea has come from the hundreds of cartoons printed almost daily for the last two years in the Pacific Stars and Stripes. With a handful of exceptions these drawings were contributed by our readers, on a basis of "maybe you might want to use this." They have come from officers and enlisted men of all the Unites States services and some of the other United Nations forces. Some have come from our Japanese friends.