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Tag: POW/MIA

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Posted inStories

He Tried to Kill Himself 3 Times. Then This Japanese Soldier Surrendered to the Americans.

by Shohei Ooka 3/16/20233/15/2023

Reluctant Japanese soldier Shohei Ooka tried and failed to commit suicide before giving himself up to American troops in the Philippines.

Photo of American servicemen, former prisoners of war, are cheering as their aircraft takes off from an airfield near Hanoi as part of Operation Homecoming.
Posted inFeature

How Operation Homecoming Was Sprung into Action to Repatriate American POWs

by J. Keith Saliba 2/28/20232/28/2023
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Posted inReview

He Was Captured at Singapore. His Daughter Found His POW Diary.

by Military History Quarterly Magazine 2/8/20232/8/2023
Posted inStories

The Day Miss America Almost Got Shot Down Over Vietnam

by Laurel Schaefer-Bozoukoff 2/6/20232/7/2023
Posted inStories

He Was 19 When He Crashed Over Vietnam. Now He’s Coming Home.

by Larry Porges 2/2/20232/2/2023
Posted inStories

Everett Alvarez Jr., Imprisoned in Vietnam For 3,113 Days, Is Nominated For Congressional Gold Medal

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher 12/27/202212/27/2022
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He Went Missing in Vietnam in 1970. His Hometown Didn’t Forget Him.

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher 9/7/20229/7/2022
Posted inStories

These US Military Funeral Traditions Honor the Fallen on Land, Air and Sea

by Jon Guttman 5/25/20225/28/2023
Posted inInterview

Russia’s Forgotten Soldiers: Soviet POWs in Germany Remain Overlooked

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher 6/25/20216/26/2021
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British Prison Ships: A Season in Hell

by Amy Chan 3/3/2020

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