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A medic instructs repatriated former POWs on how to put on Mae West life jackets, and the released POW board an aircraft in Japan.
Operation Little Switch, the first part of the Operation Big Switch repatriation effort late in the Korean War, in which released POW are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Japan, and then on to the United States. A medic instructs the returnees how to wear Mae West jackets (life jackets) for emergencies. The returnees wear life jackets. An aircraft parked in the background. The released POW boards the aircraft which will take them to Z.I. via Hawaii.
Cars carrying litter patients drive towards C-97 Stratofreighter and released Korean War prisoners are taken aboard
Operation Little Switch repatriation effort (first phase of Operation Big Switch), in which released prisoners of war (POW) from the Korean War are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Japan, and then to the U.S. Cars carrying released sick and injured prisoners in litters drive towards U.S. Air Force Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter parked at Haneda Army Airbase at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. Ambulance car backs up towards the aircraft. The U.S. soldiers in stretchers are taken aboard C-97 aircraft by U.S. military medical staff. Men stand in the background and under a wing of the aircraft. An Army General stands by.