Return with Honor: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia
DAYTON, Ohio - Protocol document issued to POWs on Jan. 30, 1973, to advise them of the details of release procedures. Capt. Ed Mechenbier used it to draw plans for his "dream house.” Playing cards issued by the Red Cross for use on the flight from Vietnam to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. The flight took about four hours. Returning POWs were given updates on a world from which they had been absent for years. These books and tapes helped them catch up. Among the events most of them missed were the first moon landings and other important events of the late 1960s. POWs even received a pamphlet explaining the latest slang expressions. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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