I was going on 24 at the time and had been out of the Marines since ‘70 and a Nam Vet 68-69. For these brave Heroes, a heartfelt WELCOME HOME. And for ALL my Nam Vet Brothers and Sisters...WELCOME HOME as well.
Every time I would take my Dad to the Va and we saw the young injured vets from the Middle East, we talked about how hard their missions were, in spite of dads 6 years in Hanoi.. So thank you Phil!
On January 27, 1973 I was 15 years old. My Dad was retired from the Army after serving 26 years and retiring as a Lt. Col. Growing up in the military gave me respect, not only for myself and others but for this great Country. I remember watching these broadcasts live and actually having tears running down my face because of the intense emotions of our Men coming home. We are living in a troubled time now in 2023. So many have lost respect for others and this country. Thank God there are still those of us who feel the greatness of this country in our hearts and in our souls. God bless everyone who has served and equally to those who have lost family members and friends to war and conflict. Finally, to MY country and to all the patriotic Americans, God Bless you too, and IGY6!
My husband flew the 130 Hercules that brought the POWs from Viet Nam to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. The picture in the video was his and I was in the crowd that you see in this film. I remember it well. My husband had a metal POW bracelet and the Captain whose name was on the bracelet was one of those on the plane. Rob, my husband, was able to take the bracelet to him and meet him. Sheryl Davie
I watched this on TV the day they arrived. Just days before a POW bracelet I had worn since 1969 with the name Capt. James Mulligan a pilot who had been shot down over Vietnam in 1967, fell into two pieces while I was tightening it on my wrist (I had never taken it off once) for the umpteenth time while taking a shower. Capt. Mulligan was one of the ones who returned, praise God.
I was there at Clark when they arrived. We were initially instructed by the base commander to stay away from the airport. Of course we didn't, and welcomed them home.
I had the honor of working behind the scenes, as a K-9 handler, securing the perimeter behind the Base Hospital at Clark AB, RP for Operation Homecoming.
My father, Col. John M. (Mike) Connolly, Jr. was Chief of Information for PACAF at this time and was responsible for media relations. He said it was his proudest moment, even after arriving at D-Day and later participating in the Battle of the Bulge during WWII. So thrilled to find this footage!
Im 12 but this kind of stuff is very interesting. My grandfather was a soldier in Korea he was blowen up by a gernade and went blind but slowly regained it
I was there for most of the arrivals an we were just in awe a the all the POWs coming down the plane in big smiles!! Howwondweful and pricless Freedom i!! Mi husband swrved as color guard for the navy and alwats ready ti come back at moments notice whay ever tine at any time!
I REMEMBER MY BROTHER COMING HOME TOO MET HIM AT THE AIRPORT HE WAS IN HIS CLASS A'S PEOPLE WERE YELLING AT HIM BABY KILLER A GUY SPIT IN HIS FACE I AM 64 YEARS OLD AND I WILL NEVER FORGET OR FORGIVE HOW THESE IDIOTS TREATED VIETNAM VETS FOR YEARS THIS IS STILL MY COUNTRY THIS IS STILL MY FLAG AND THE MILITARY STILL AND WILL ALWAYS HAVE MY RESPECT AND GRATITUDE...
I served in the Marine Corp 1974 -1976 and was at this event at North island when the POW’s arrived. Their were about 16k navy personnel on the island and a marine barracks with 100 marines that provided security for the island. About 20 to 40 of us Marines were transported and stationed around the parameter when the plane landed. We watched history unfold as they came off the plane. The video does not show several of those taken off on stretchers or the early ones who exited the plane, dropped to their knees and with emotion kissed the ground. I hope we still remember!!!! I do!! M Weiss USMC
I was a kid in grade school and I distinctly remember Operation Homecoming when a USAF C-141 Starlifter returned 599 POWS at Andrews Airbase. I was a kid, and later when I served in The US.Navy during the Beirut,Lebanon bombing which killed two hundred of our brethren marines by a crazed Hezbollah suicide truck driver and later in The U.S. Army GULF War in Operation Desert storm I appreciate the awesome and gut wrenching feeling you get when you see only a small number of service members come back home. Tears roll down my face as no words can describe the bond of service personnel who are closer in battle than any ordinary job. I am proud and humble to be called a fellow GULF War Veteran! Duty,Honour, Country!
I remember my dad taking me on this aircraft for a tour when I was a kid, he was an aircraft engine mechanic stationed at Norton AFB in San Bernardino, Ca, and this aircraft was stationed for there for a period as well. I didn't realize the significance at the time, but now I've sensed realized it was very special.
I was at Clark sharing a cherry picker hoist with another photographer when that Starlifter pulled onto the tarmac. I was 22 years old, U.S. Army enlisted E4, part of a four man team from Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo who were sent to Clark Air Base to record the first arrivals. It was the most emotional experience of my life. To see these men walk across the tarmac to awaiting buses, and the more critically injured men to be carried on stretchers to ambulance buses, was an incredible sight. One of the first men off the plane was a Navy pilot by the name of Everett Alvarez. I was 14 years old when he was shot down over north Vietnam. This video brings back such touching memories.
I still can't understand why the mindset of Americans were so screwed up back then. I mean how do you treat these soldiers who were fighting for you and your country like animals. I'll never understand why so many Americans sitting at home in their nice comfortable homes can treat these veterans so poorly, after all they went through.
My grandpa Earl Eugene Eckenrode died a couple of months ago and he told me how Vietnam was and I just want to say I'm sorry that we treat you veterans badly when you returned
I was in the USAF when the POW's were released. It was great to see these guys come home. They had endured years of horrible treatment by the North Vietnamese.
RIP Jeremiah Denton -- He telegraphed the word 'TORTURE' while being used for propaganda purposes. I remember watching this on our TV and crying --- Glad these men were home but heartbroken for all those who didn't come home. They served with honor and were honor bound to serve --- They did not declare a war, but were obligated to honor their oaths of service.
It may well have been Cmdr Denton. After all these years I still fell the same sadness recalling what our POW's endured and can still remember how grateful I am to them and all our military, for placing our nation above their own lives. I am forever grateful my husband survived his three tours in Vietnam, but know the toll it took upon him grows worse over time. He is an always will be, a man of honor and the greatest man I'll ever know. If only those who declare the wars and send our men and women into them, had just a fraction of that honor and courage, then perhaps they would remember the promises they make to them and make sure those promises are kept. Forever grateful Forever proud our our military.
The film was shot at Clark Air Base as this is where the C-141 flew once it left Hanoi. The clue is the "bread truck" with the 604th MASS markings, which stood for - 604th Military Airlift Support Squadron, Clark AB, Philippines I flew the last fragged mission of Vietnam the following day out of Danang AB.
Oh my....Thank you. A sad time but joyous bringing our men home. So much gratitude to your husband and to you for being his partner in life so that he could bring our men home where they belong. While I was very young I actually remember the day these men were brought home, one image sticks in my mind of one POW and I've not been able to find out his name even after all of these years. Thank you for your husbands' service and for yours as well, as you served along side him even when he was gone
I had been selected for a special watch in Intel Plot behind the Navy Department Duty Captain in the Pentagon when this event took place. Talk about a feeling of pride for being there, for them. Awesome.
I was there that day. I had come up from Subic and Cubi Pt. to umpire a girls softball game on base at the request of a friend. Of course when I got there the game had been canceled, and we all went over to Operations to watch our men step off the plane and return to freedom.
Speechless, so beautiful 😭 Had the honor of meeting Jeremiah Denton when I was in hs and volunteering at the Nixon Library. They have that little flag the one soldier is waving out of the bus window!
Soldiers coming home: This has got to be the monumental dayof the whole 'America in Vietnam Campaign.' It got a whole chapter in my novel 'The Bouchard Legacy.'
It's an honour to serve,to join in the fight. To lay my life. Giving glory to God and asking none in return. A powerful video song. You can't watch it and not feel emotional!
My 7 yr old nephew asked why the Vietnam vets were treated so terribly when they came home. I said, "It was a very unpopular war". He said, "Aren't ALL wars unpopular?" I went on to explain that I meant the reason we went over there was controversial. HIm: "Why weren't the IRAQ vets spit on and beaten, then???"
War brings to life all the worst of nightmares. But it call also bring out the best in people, too. My husband was three tours in Vietnam (two of which he volunteered for) and worked with Hmong who very much working with us and there was mutual respect. He knew of a few who were killed by Viet Kong *because* they had protect some US military. We also had an incredible doctor who's parents had worked for the US embassy and were among the last to get out, with Vietnam fell. Neither of us will forget the day she thanked my husband and said that because of men like him, her parents been able to leave, with her, just a tiny baby and because of that, she was alive.
I don't think so, dad seemed like he had never seen it before. I hadn't seen it either. Also, I don't think we had an 8mm(?) back then. I have always checked out videos or photos from the release looking for either dad or us in the crowd pictures, never seen any of us in either. Sure can't miss him in this one! Thanks for pointing this one out.
I think it is wonderful that we got these men home to their own soil... what is not wonderful in 2013 we seemed to have not learned anything.. Dwight Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex... and we have paid dearly in blood and treasure for nothing decaying of America on so many fronts... Re-elect nobody
Gracias. Por su sacrificio nunca nos olvidemos de los que lucharon y murieron en vietman son Un grande .heroe en una epoca en que ubiero. Mucho descontento. En eeuu y el mundo y Esos valerosos jovenes partieron a pelear en. Un pais estraño.con el desconteto de su Propa. Gente pero respondieron al llamado de. Su pais y a los que murieron. Gracias por Su sacrifio nunca seran olvidado. Y espero que mis hermano norteamericano tampoco
C-141 66-0177 did the first flight. Now at NMUSAF and was the very last 141 to be retired. 177, The Hanoi Taxi, was until that last flight the flagship of its last owner, the 445th AW, and although it was stretched in the 80s and later became C-141C in the 90s when it when to 445th AW, it was repainted in 2002 back to the 1973 livery.
Fairly certain I flew that one, based out of Norton. Almost every single C141 was lengthened and air refueling capability added , between 1977 and 1982. After this modification, it was designated the C-141B (not C)
Even the POW's weren't shown respect back then. Well at least they weren't spit on. There should have been a bigger home coming for these guys. Shame on all Americans.
Did'nt serve my country getting up out of High School 1974. Still this brought tears to my eyes seeing some of the men having gait problems possibly due to TORTURE. Also the thought that at that time THE POWERS THAT WERE Knew that there were men somewhat over 2,000 that didnt get to come home from being a POW. I think again those powers didnt want to pay Laos and other countries that were bombed
Same year for me High School graduation. In Southern California there was some protest and anti war sentiment. Wasn’t even thinking of the armed services until I was in college. After university, somehow I was accepted into OTS, and UPT, and then the mighty C141. These videos are priceless. By the way, I did fly with a few former POWs.
Those poor men limping. You know how that happened. God bless them all. The soft entitled candy ass coddled snowflakes we have today could never have survived that experience. The generation becoming adults now is mostly pathetic and troubling. It's bleak.
@comp5d5 You have to be kidding! I saw that and thought something completely different. His right arm was injured either when has plane was shot down or by the North Vietnamese while he was a POW. These guys should always be honored. Shame on you for even saying something so trivial.
@Bdendfender It was just a question. I wasn't knocking them for anything and have a lot of respect for those who went over and did what they did. I just wondered why the wrong hand...
I WENT OVER TO NAM 10 YRS AFTER THE WAR FOUND THOUSANDS OF POWS SORTING OUT RAINBOW COLORED U.S AMPUTTATED CORPES FROM HAWAII. I SINGLE HANDED FLEW OUT A FEW THOUSAND BACK TO THE U.S THEN MADE A DEAL TO WORK RELEASE THEM THROUGH RUSSIA AFTER SPINING TIME IN AFGHANASTAN. THE LAST 65,000 OF THEM WHERE RELEASE TO OTHER COUNTRIES OF CHOICE.
yes, sir. god rest her soul. i was 7yoa and sitting with my mom watching on b/w TV we had. she said "look there are some with no family to great them...come on we will go". what it meant to be an adult and an american. today: biden the clown can not put one sentence together in public buy some claim he is "the elder statesmen of the century".
Who was the flight crew that flee the Hanoi taxi on that day????? Can't find any info I was told I may be related.... And I never got to meet him before he died.
Major Jim Marrott was the Aircraft Commander of the first flight into Hanoi. He was my boss (Head of Stan Eval) in the 15th Military Airlift Squadron, Norton AFB, Ca. A fine gentleman.
I was going on 24 at the time and had been out of the Marines since ‘70 and a Nam Vet 68-69. For these brave Heroes, a heartfelt WELCOME HOME. And for ALL my Nam Vet Brothers and Sisters...WELCOME HOME as well.
You Sir are also a hero to me.
thank you for your service Phil greatly appreciated!
So Sweet
Every time I would take my Dad to the Va and we saw the young injured vets from the Middle East, we talked about how hard their missions were, in spite of dads 6 years in Hanoi.. So thank you Phil!
On January 27, 1973 I was 15 years old. My Dad was retired from the Army after serving 26 years and retiring as a Lt. Col. Growing up in the military gave me respect, not only for myself and others but for this great Country. I remember watching these broadcasts live and actually having tears running down my face because of the intense emotions of our Men coming home. We are living in a troubled time now in 2023. So many have lost respect for others and this country. Thank God there are still those of us who feel the greatness of this country in our hearts and in our souls. God bless everyone who has served and equally to those who have lost family members and friends to war and conflict. Finally, to MY country and to all the patriotic Americans, God Bless you too, and IGY6!
My husband flew the 130 Hercules that brought the POWs from Viet Nam to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. The picture in the video was his and I was in the crowd that you see in this film. I remember it well.
My husband had a metal POW bracelet and the Captain whose name was on the bracelet was one of those on the plane. Rob, my husband, was able to take the bracelet to him and meet him.
Sheryl Davie
I watched this on TV the day they arrived. Just days before a POW bracelet I had worn since 1969 with the name Capt. James Mulligan a pilot who had been shot down over Vietnam in 1967, fell into two pieces while I was tightening it on my wrist (I had never taken it off once) for the umpteenth time while taking a shower. Capt. Mulligan was one of the ones who returned, praise God.
brainpilot that’s actually an underrated story
My Father fought in Vietnam, and I was a Marine.
I was there at Clark when they arrived. We were initially instructed by the base commander to stay away from the airport. Of course we didn't, and welcomed them home.
I had the honor of working behind the scenes, as a K-9 handler, securing the perimeter behind the Base Hospital at Clark AB, RP for Operation Homecoming.
+David Laurin, Sr.
I was a dependant, was on the flight line holding a welcome home sign
very proud day
I remember watching this on tv around 1973 or 74. My heart has so much respect for them. Then and now.
My father, Col. John M. (Mike) Connolly, Jr. was Chief of Information for PACAF at this time and was responsible for media relations. He said it was his proudest moment, even after arriving at D-Day and later participating in the Battle of the Bulge during WWII. So thrilled to find this footage!
Mary Anne Connolly holy Shit really?? We must have know each other. My Father was at Pacaf. The picnics were awesome. 😂😂
Im 12 but this kind of stuff is very interesting. My grandfather was a soldier in Korea he was blowen up by a gernade and went blind but slowly regained it
Weeping, watching and remembering these days.
We love all of you and thank you for your service and sacrifice. May you feel safe for the rest of your days. God bless.
I was there for most of the arrivals an we were just in awe a the all the POWs coming down the plane in big smiles!! Howwondweful and pricless Freedom i!! Mi husband swrved as color guard for the navy and alwats ready ti come back at moments notice whay ever tine at any time!
I REMEMBER MY BROTHER COMING HOME TOO MET HIM AT THE AIRPORT HE WAS IN HIS CLASS A'S PEOPLE WERE YELLING AT HIM BABY KILLER A GUY SPIT IN HIS FACE I AM 64 YEARS OLD AND I WILL NEVER FORGET OR FORGIVE HOW THESE IDIOTS TREATED VIETNAM VETS FOR YEARS THIS IS STILL MY COUNTRY THIS IS STILL MY FLAG AND THE MILITARY STILL AND WILL ALWAYS HAVE MY RESPECT AND GRATITUDE...
Thank-you to all of these brave patriots for their service to our country. I hope they all found happiness in their lives when they returned home.
I served in the Marine Corp 1974 -1976 and was at this event at North island when the POW’s arrived.
Their were about 16k navy personnel on the island and a marine barracks with 100 marines that provided security for the island.
About 20 to 40 of us Marines were transported and stationed around the parameter when the plane landed. We watched history unfold as they came off the plane.
The video does not show several of those taken off on stretchers or the early ones who exited the plane, dropped to their knees and with emotion kissed the ground. I hope we still remember!!!! I do!!
M Weiss USMC
Thank you for your service, sir!
I saw myself a very young AF Sgt. ...WOW!
I remember watching this on TV as a kid I was young but I understood what was happening. God bless these men.
I was a kid in grade school and I distinctly remember Operation Homecoming when a USAF C-141 Starlifter returned 599 POWS at Andrews Airbase. I was a kid, and later when I served in The US.Navy during the Beirut,Lebanon bombing which killed two hundred of our brethren marines by a crazed Hezbollah suicide truck driver and later in The U.S. Army GULF War in Operation Desert storm I appreciate the awesome and gut wrenching feeling you get when you see only a small number of service members come back home. Tears roll down my face as no words can describe the bond of service personnel who are closer in battle than any ordinary job. I am proud and humble to be called a fellow GULF War Veteran! Duty,Honour, Country!
I remember my dad taking me on this aircraft for a tour when I was a kid, he was an aircraft engine mechanic stationed at Norton AFB in San Bernardino, Ca, and this aircraft was stationed for there for a period as well. I didn't realize the significance at the time, but now I've sensed realized it was very special.
I was at Clark sharing a cherry picker hoist with another photographer when that Starlifter pulled onto the tarmac. I was 22 years old, U.S. Army enlisted E4, part of a four man team from Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo who were sent to Clark Air Base to record the first arrivals. It was the most emotional experience of my life. To see these men walk across the tarmac to awaiting buses, and the more critically injured men to be carried on stretchers to ambulance buses, was an incredible sight. One of the first men off the plane was a Navy pilot by the name of Everett Alvarez. I was 14 years old when he was shot down over north Vietnam. This video brings back such touching memories.
I still can't understand why the mindset of Americans were so screwed up back then. I mean how do you treat these soldiers who were fighting for you and your country like animals. I'll never understand why so many Americans sitting at home in their nice comfortable homes can treat these veterans so poorly, after all they went through.
my granddad was a prisoner of war in the Vietnam war but hes still missing
Nixon lied. About half of the prisoners they had were kept because Nixon didn’t pay war reparations
My grandpa Earl Eugene Eckenrode died a couple of months ago and he told me how Vietnam was and I just want to say I'm sorry that we treat you veterans badly when you returned
I was in the USAF when the POW's were released. It was great to see these guys come home. They had endured years of horrible treatment by the North Vietnamese.
RIP Jeremiah Denton -- He telegraphed the word 'TORTURE' while being used for propaganda purposes.
I remember watching this on our TV and crying --- Glad these men were home but heartbroken for all those who didn't come home.
They served with honor and were honor bound to serve --- They did not declare a war, but were obligated to honor their oaths of service.
The man saluting the flag in this video looks like Jeremiah Denton. Do you think it might be him?
It may well have been Cmdr Denton.
After all these years I still fell the same sadness recalling what our POW's endured and can still remember how grateful I am to them and all our military, for placing our nation above their own lives.
I am forever grateful my husband survived his three tours in Vietnam, but know the toll it took upon him grows worse over time. He is an always will be, a man of honor and the greatest man I'll ever know.
If only those who declare the wars and send our men and women into them, had just a fraction of that honor and courage, then perhaps they would remember the promises they make to them and make sure those promises are kept.
Forever grateful Forever proud our our military.
The film was shot at Clark Air Base as this is where the C-141 flew once it left Hanoi. The clue is the "bread truck" with the 604th MASS markings, which stood for - 604th Military Airlift Support Squadron, Clark AB, Philippines
I flew the last fragged mission of Vietnam the following day out of Danang AB.
Oh my....Thank you. A sad time but joyous bringing our men home. So much gratitude to your husband and to you for being his partner in life so that he could bring our men home where they belong. While I was very young I actually remember the day these men were brought home, one image sticks in my mind of one POW and I've not been able to find out his name even after all of these years. Thank you for your husbands' service and for yours as well, as you served along side him even when he was gone
I had been selected for a special watch in Intel Plot behind the Navy Department Duty Captain in the Pentagon when this event took place. Talk about a feeling of pride for being there, for them. Awesome.
I couldn't watch this video sitting down. I had to stand up - the least I could do.
I was there that day. I had come up from Subic and Cubi Pt. to umpire a girls softball game on base at the request of a friend. Of course when I got there the game had been canceled, and we all went over to Operations to watch our men step off the plane and return to freedom.
Welcome home to all the wonderful servicemen that stayed the course. Proud of all of you.
Speechless, so beautiful 😭 Had the honor of meeting Jeremiah Denton when I was in hs and volunteering at the Nixon Library. They have that little flag the one soldier is waving out of the bus window!
Soldiers coming home: This has got to be the monumental dayof the whole 'America in Vietnam Campaign.' It got a whole chapter in my novel 'The Bouchard Legacy.'
at 55 seconds when they show the crowd....I'm standing there some where....
It's an honour to serve,to join in the fight. To lay my life. Giving glory to God and asking none in return. A powerful video song. You can't watch it and not feel emotional!
My 7 yr old nephew asked why the Vietnam vets were treated so terribly when they came home. I said, "It was a very unpopular war". He said, "Aren't ALL wars unpopular?" I went on to explain that I meant the reason we went over there was controversial. HIm: "Why weren't the IRAQ vets spit on and beaten, then???"
So much trouble walking, what those people did to our young men was horrific.
They were Analy raped By vietnamese fuck Murica
Hiwa Joe Oooh wow being apart of the most successful and powerful country is so bad boo hoo. Go be jealous somewhere else
i'am not jealous i'am disgust of the so called most powerful country
War brings to life all the worst of nightmares.
But it call also bring out the best in people, too.
My husband was three tours in Vietnam (two of which he volunteered for) and worked with Hmong who very much working with us and there was mutual respect. He knew of a few who were killed by Viet Kong *because* they had protect some US military.
We also had an incredible doctor who's parents had worked for the US embassy and were among the last to get out, with Vietnam fell. Neither of us will forget the day she thanked my husband and said that because of men like him, her parents been able to leave, with her, just a tiny baby and because of that, she was alive.
Abd-al-Haq al-Haqiqi get lost slave!
That's my girlfriends step-dad at :54 closest to the camera with the blue Air Force cap on and also at 1:46 with his thumb up
Thank You For Your Servive :)
WHOYOUARSCHLOCH hi
Heroes. God bless them. Many could hardly walk.
They did not all come home~ We still owe them that~
God Bless Our Heroes
Real heroes.
where is that America?the country of bravery,generosity ,of the greatness and dreams .I really wonder if it will ever come back or if it lost forever.
I don't think so, dad seemed like he had never seen it before. I hadn't seen it either. Also, I don't think we had an 8mm(?) back then. I have always checked out videos or photos from the release looking for either dad or us in the crowd pictures, never seen any of us in either. Sure can't miss him in this one! Thanks for pointing this one out.
I think it is wonderful that we got these men home to their own soil... what is not wonderful in 2013 we seemed to have not learned anything.. Dwight Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex... and we have paid dearly in blood and treasure for nothing decaying of America on so many fronts... Re-elect nobody
because his right arm was pretty much damaged from either torture or if a pilot his ejection might have caused it or some other means.
God only knows what theese men went trough.
Welcome home brothers!
What a wonderful day for those men!!
Gracias. Por su sacrificio nunca nos olvidemos de los que lucharon y murieron en vietman son
Un grande .heroe en una epoca en que ubiero. Mucho descontento. En eeuu y el mundo y
Esos valerosos jovenes partieron a pelear en. Un pais estraño.con el desconteto de su
Propa. Gente pero respondieron al llamado de. Su pais y a los que murieron. Gracias por
Su sacrifio nunca seran olvidado. Y espero que mis hermano norteamericano tampoco
there are still POW's in Vietnam...
SEMPER FI AND WELCOME MY BROTHERS!
it sure feels good to be an American. even though this was 50 years ago, it sure feels good to be an American.
C-141 66-0177 did the first flight. Now at NMUSAF and was the very last 141 to be retired. 177, The Hanoi Taxi, was until that last flight the flagship of its last owner, the 445th AW, and although it was stretched in the 80s and later became C-141C in the 90s when it when to 445th AW, it was repainted in 2002 back to the 1973 livery.
Fairly certain I flew that one, based out of Norton. Almost every single C141 was lengthened and air refueling capability added , between 1977 and 1982. After this modification, it was designated the C-141B (not C)
Even the POW's weren't shown respect back then. Well at least they weren't spit on. There should have been a bigger home coming for these guys. Shame on all Americans.
Did'nt serve my country getting up out of High School 1974. Still this brought tears to my eyes seeing some of the men having gait problems possibly due to TORTURE. Also the thought that at that time THE POWERS THAT WERE Knew that there were men somewhat over 2,000 that didnt get to come home from being a POW. I think again those powers didnt want to pay Laos and other countries that were bombed
Same year for me High School graduation. In Southern California there was some protest and anti war sentiment. Wasn’t even thinking of the armed services until I was in college. After university, somehow I was accepted into OTS, and UPT, and then the mighty C141. These videos are priceless. By the way, I did fly with a few former POWs.
I lived in Hawaii when the POWs stopped for a rest in route to the mainland. Does anyone know of any film footage of that 2 week event?
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Those poor men limping. You know how that happened. God bless them all. The soft entitled candy ass coddled snowflakes we have today could never have survived that experience. The generation becoming adults now is mostly pathetic and troubling. It's bleak.
@comp5d5 What military branch did you serve in? Can't you see that his other arms injured?
if there are still pows down there why not make a team of 300 commandos and try find them
Uhhh Unless I`m missing something, Lackland is in San Antonio Texas.... It`s the basic airman trainee base for the military. Hope this helps.
Glory To God 🙏🇺🇸🥰
@comp5d5 You have to be kidding! I saw that and thought something completely different. His right arm was injured either when has plane was shot down or by the North Vietnamese while he was a POW. These guys should always be honored. Shame on you for even saying something so trivial.
45000 US Servicemembers died for nothing
IS that JOHN McCAIN at the 1:05 mark...? ___ it sure SEEMS like him.
POWS RETURNING HOME FROM VIETNAM. FREE AT LAST.
my uncle fourght in this war
@Bdendfender It was just a question. I wasn't knocking them for anything and have a lot of respect for those who went over and did what they did. I just wondered why the wrong hand...
the dude at the end of the couch says that's his dad in the blue air force cap and with his thumb up
I WENT OVER TO NAM 10 YRS AFTER THE WAR FOUND THOUSANDS OF POWS SORTING OUT RAINBOW COLORED U.S AMPUTTATED CORPES FROM HAWAII. I SINGLE HANDED FLEW OUT A FEW THOUSAND BACK TO THE U.S THEN MADE A DEAL TO WORK RELEASE THEM THROUGH RUSSIA AFTER SPINING TIME IN AFGHANASTAN. THE LAST 65,000 OF THEM WHERE RELEASE TO OTHER COUNTRIES OF CHOICE.
And Jane Fonda passes out crying…
@kerojis, what? The man saluted with the wrong hand... a salute is initiated with the right hand...
Maybe after the torture he went through, he couldn’t raise his right arm.
Hey Dan did your mom take this movie
He came to my sons school apollo elimentry
Clark Air Base in the Philippines?
yes, sir.
god rest her soul. i was 7yoa and sitting with my mom watching on b/w TV we had.
she said "look there are some with no family to great them...come on we will go".
what it meant to be an adult and an american.
today:
biden the clown can not put one sentence together in public buy some claim he is "the elder statesmen of the century".
Who was the flight crew that flee the Hanoi taxi on that day????? Can't find any info I was told I may be related.... And I never got to meet him before he died.
Major Jim Marrott was the Aircraft Commander of the first flight into Hanoi. He was my boss (Head of Stan Eval) in the 15th Military Airlift Squadron, Norton AFB, Ca. A fine gentleman.
Check out the Video's and Slide Shows at the VMA 225 You Tube Channel on the tour of the Western Pacific and Viet Nam 1964-1965.
@indieboy26 No you can't see that... I served in the Army... YOU?
is it possiable der still over der
Ja si myslím že vietkong neprepustil všetkých zajatcov. Mnohí tam zostali v zajatí ešte veľa rokov.
wats the music
What's up with the guy saluting the flag at 0:51 with the wrong hand?
Look at his right arm he is injured
No salute???
@comp5d5 he think they will greet him.
:50 why did that guy salute with his left hand?
He had been tortured so badly that he couldn't raise his right arm. You'll note a moment earlier, he is shaking hands with his left.
watched to mutch missing in action movies (chuck norris)
just glad to now aare soldier keep faith evej will held ass pows
they will celebrate st crispin day as we lucky few band of brethrens
@comp5d5 USMC '66-'70
0:51
I think there are much more outside South east asia
- but i think they where executed
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