1967 Miss America in Vietnam

Pictures of Jane Anne Jayroe, who was Miss America in 1967, making a 17-day tour of U.S. bases in South Vietnam in August 1967. There are several other former Miss American contestants in the troupe.

“I can't talk about it without getting emotional,” Jayroe recalled. “What affected me the most during that year was going to Vietnam. It was such a little thing that we did to spend two weeks there, but it meant so much to those who were serving there.”