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    Operation Homecoming was the return of 591 American prisoners of war (POWs) held by North Vietnam following the Paris Peace Accords that ended U.S. involvement...
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    Operation Safe Homecoming was an operation launched by the Indian government on 26 February 2011 to evacuate its citizens who were fleeing from the Libyan...
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    Operation Homecoming was a United States National Endowment for the Arts–Department of Defense therapeutic writing program for returning war veterans....
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  • Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Richard E. Robbins, which portrays the lives and experiences...
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    it was known to American POWs as the "Hanoi Hilton". Following Operation Homecoming, the prison was used to incarcerate Vietnamese dissidents and other...
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  • of operation in Southeast Asia. Following the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, 591 U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) were returned during Operation Homecoming. Many...
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  • American POWs in North Vietnam were released in early 1973 as part of Operation Homecoming, the result of diplomatic negotiations concluding U.S. military involvement...
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    documentary Semper Fi, is featured in Richard E. Robbins’s documentary Operation Homecoming, and has made appearances on several talk shows and in documentaries...
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  • 1973, at Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport as part of the 2nd DRV Increment, Operation Homecoming, comprising 108 POWs on three flights. He had been a prisoner for...
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  • Spider-Man: Homecoming is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios...
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    American POWs released by Hanoi to step off an American plane during Operation Homecoming on February 12, 1973. As one of the earliest and highest-ranking...
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    American troops withdrawn from Vietnam within sixty days. Planning for Operation Homecoming, the mission for the return of Americans held by North Vietnam, was...
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    to the family of Lance Cpl. Aaron C. Austin was included in the Operation Homecoming book released in 2006. As a result, he earned the Bronze Star with...
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    famous for bringing back the first returned prisoners of war in Operation Homecoming. This aircraft, which was delivered to the Air Force in 1967, was...
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    March 4, 1973, both Coker and Fellowes were released as part of Operation Homecoming. Vietnam-era POWs were released by order of capture and Fellowes...
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    (Chappie) James was there to meet them. The Department of Defense "Operation Homecoming" plan included receiving a handwritten letter from family telling...
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    of himself and other POWs who had arrived from Vietnam as part of Operation Homecoming." Smithsonian Magazine says that "Veder, who'd been standing in a...
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    66-0177), the first aircraft to land in North Vietnam in 1973 for Operation Homecoming in the final days of the Vietnam War, to repatriate American POWs...
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  • biplane was introduced and subsequently extensively used for Clark Field operations. The U.S. Army Air Service contingent in the Philippines consisted of...
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    p506 Halifax Daily Star, Friday, Nov. 12, 1948 (Wright 1903 Flyer "Operation Homecoming" Scrapbook, PDF pg33of254) Hallion 1978, p.55. Mikesh. Preston, Shelley...
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    writing was included in the book Operation Homecoming, and in the Oscar-nominated documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience in...
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    Accords of 1973, 591 U.S. prisoners of war were returned during Operation Homecoming. The U.S. listed about 1,350 Americans as prisoners of war or missing...
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    Hottest Black Men in America 2006 Wilder: An American First 2007 Operation Homecoming 2008 Barack Obama: Who Is This Guy? 2009 President Barack Obama:...
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    POWs were released from North Vietnam in February and March 1973 (Operation Homecoming), so much had changed back in the United States that Coker (and Commander...
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    Puccini for Beginners Philip Flannel Pajamas Stuart Sawyer 2007 Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience Narrator 2008 Food Fight Narrator...
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    Son. PBS ran a segment on Phelps' journey home as part of their Operation Homecoming documentary in the America at a Crossroads series on April 16, 2007...
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    Afghanistan. With funding from the Boeing Company, the NEA launched "Operation Homecoming" and encouraged active duty service members, veterans, and their...
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    services released in 1973 for return to the United States during Operation Homecoming. Guy Gruters was born on October 26, 1942, in Sarasota, Florida,...
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    1973 as part of the first group of American POWs repatriated under Operation Homecoming, after spending 3,113 days in captivity. After hospitalization, Alvarez...
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    Great American Voices Military Base Tour. In 2004, Gioia launched Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which collected writings from U...
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