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A returned American POW from Ohio makes a call to his family immediately after arriving at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., April 1953. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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POWs in the Korean War
Gen. Otto P. Weyland, Far East Air Forces commander (left) and Surgeon Col. Jesse R. Grace (right) greet Lt. Col. Thomas Harrison, recently released during Operation Big Switch, September 1953. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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POWs in the Korean War
An Airman is reunited with his soldier brother. USAF Tech. Sgt. Ralph Cox (left) greets PFC Tully Cox, repatriated in April 1953. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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POWs in the Korean War
Many POWs required immediate medical care upon release. These exchanged prisoners are arriving at Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, in August 1953. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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POWs in the Korean War
One of the first Air Force POWs to return to Japan in Operation Big Switch was Staff Sgt. Robert M. Wilkins (center). He is shown arriving in Japan after the 4-and-a-half hour flight from Korea, Aug. 18, 1953. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Giant C-124 Globemaster transports ferried released POWs from Korea to Japan, and home to the United States. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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POWs in the Korean War
POW release to UN authorities was the first step in repatriation. Here, communists turn over UN troops at the POW receiving center at Panmunjon, on the border of North and South Korea. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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An American POW is repatriated at Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, Sept. 10, 1953. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Capt. Lillian Kinkela
Lt. (later Capt.) Lillian Kinkela at Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, during the Korean War. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Capt. Lillian Kinkela (right) with movie star Joan Leslie, who starred in the 1953 film "Flight Nurse." (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Korean War
Flight nurse 1st Lt. Victoria Malokas checks patient records with C-54 aircraft commander Maj. George Cichy, October 1952. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Flight nurse 2nd Lt. Pauline Kircher dresses a patient’s wound during the flight from Korea to Japan, May 1951. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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