Just prior to their release in Hanoi, a group of U.S. POWs smile and smoke cigarettes at they walk from buses to planeside ceremony at Gia Lam airfield

Just prior to their release in Hanoi, a group of U.S. POWs smile and smoke cigarettes at they walk from buses to planeside ceremony at Gia Lam airfield

Photograph

Horst Faas

Maker
German, 1933–2012

Just prior to their release in Hanoi, a group of U.S. POWs smile and smoke cigarettes at they walk from buses to planeside ceremony at Gia Lam airfield

ca. 1970
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 × 8 5/8 in. (15.3 × 21.9 cm)
Paper: 6 9/16 × 10 1/4 in. (16.6 × 26.1 cm)
Gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz, 2024
2025.0010.0037
Inscriptions Printed left of image: (SAI-11) HANOI, March 16/73-(AP) Just prior to their re- \ lease in Hanoi Friday, a group of U.S. POWs \ smile and smoke cigarettes at they walk from buses to \ planeside ceremony at Gia Lam airfield. Viet Cong re- \ leased 32 US POWs, incl. 27 military and 5 civilians. (AP \ RADIO) stf/Faas
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: HF-VNM-258
Printed in black on verso, LB: XXA12929
Stamped in red on verso, RC: MAR 19 1973
Printed in black on applied label on verso, BRC: 6x8 \ 452345
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