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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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POWs in the Korean War

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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POWs in the Korean War

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

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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Korean War

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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Korean War

A casualty arrives in Japan aboard a C-47, July 1950. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Korean War

The huge new C-124 could carry 200 walking wounded or 127 litter patients. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Korean War

Airmen move a wounded patient. Speedy evacuation by air cut the casualty death rate by half from World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Korean War

C-47s carried casualties from forward airstrips to air bases further south. These patients are being evacuated from the front near Hagaru-ri in late 1950 during the Chosin retreat. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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