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Title: Laotian War POW Exchange
Date Created and/or Issued: 1974-09-20T07:00:00Z
Publication Information: Chapman University Digital Commons
Contributing Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
Collection: UPI - The Vietnam War
Rights Information: copyrighted
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Description: Vientiane, Laos: A disabled North Vietnamese POW is carried by a fellow Communist prisoner to a waiting plane early 9/19 for a flight to Phonsavan in northern Laos where the first prisoner-of-war exchange since the end of the Laotian war was completed later 9/19. The Vientiane side handed over 173 North Vietnamese soldiers to the Pathet Lao. The Pathet Lao in turn freed 150 Thai volunteers and 20 Laotian soldiers.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/upi_vietnam/20
Subject: Vietnam War
History
Military, War, and Peace
Source: UPI - The Vietnam War

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