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On February 12, 1973, three C-141 transports flew to Hanoi, North Vietnam, and one C-9A aircraft was sent to Saigon, South Vietnam to pick up released prisoners of war. The first flight of 40 U.S. prisoners of war left Hanoi in a C-141A, which later became known as the "Hanoi Taxi" and is now in a museum. Locations of POW camps in North Vietnam
Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike U.S. service members captured in World War II and the Korean War, who were mostly enlisted troops, the overwhelming majority of Vietnam-era POWs were officers, most of them Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps airmen; a relatively small number of ...
Often cited as the last verified American prisoner of war (POW) from the Vietnam War, Garwood was captured on September 28, 1965 by Việt Cộng forces near Da Nang, Quang Nam Province. He was taken to North Vietnam in 1969, and although he was reportedly released in 1973 along with the other U.S. POWs as part of the Paris Peace Accords , he ...
The last known American POW, Captain Robert White, was released by North Vietnam. [25] 2 April. Thiệu concluded a two-day visit to the United States. Nixon promised continued economic aid to South Vietnam, dependent upon U.S. congressional approval, and Thiệu pledged to never ask the United States to reintroduce American troops into South ...
Even though there were only twenty POWs of that first increment released aboard the plane, almost 400 family members turned up for the homecoming. [3] USAF Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Stirm made a speech [4] "on behalf of himself and other POWs who had arrived from Vietnam as part of Operation Homecoming." [5]
Ellis was held as a POW in North Vietnam for over five years after his plane was shot down and captured in November, 1967. ... 1973, during Operation Homecoming, he was released and able to return ...
PAVN prisoners released, Thạch Hãn River, 24 February 1973 210 prisoners from the Bien Hoa POW Camp refuse repatriation and want to remain in South Vietnam sit with signs at Bien Hoa Air Base, 25 March. The Paris Peace Accords effectively removed the U.S. from the conflict in Vietnam.
George Thomas Coker shortly after his release from the POW camps in North Vietnam; March 1973. On March 4, 1973, both Coker and Fellowes were released as part of Operation Homecoming . [ 20 ] Vietnam-era POWs were released by order of capture and Fellowes and Coker were in the second large release group, about No. 123 and #124. [ 2 ]