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The first group had spent six to eight years as prisoners of war. [4] The last POWs were turned over to allied hands on 29 March 1973 raising the total number of Americans returned to 591. Of the POWs repatriated to the United States a total of 325 of them served in the United States Air Force, a majority of which were bomber pilots shot down ...
The year 1974 also saw the publication in English of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's book The Gulag Archipelago, where he mentions that many of the prisoners he met in Gulag in the late 1940s were veterans of the Vlasov Army repatriated by the British and Americans in 1945, a policy which he portrayed as craven and self-defeating. [38]
The German 6th Army surrendered in the Battle of Stalingrad, 91,000 of the survivors became prisoners of war raising the number to 170,000 [7] in early 1943, but 85,000 died in the months following their capture at Stalingrad, with only approximately 6,000 of them surviving to be repatriated after the war. [8]
Operation Exodus was the code name for the airborne repatriation of British ex-prisoners of war from Europe, that took place from April to May 1945, in the closing stages of the Second World War. [1] By 1 June approximately, 3,500 flights had brought 75,000 men back to the UK in modified Lancaster bombers. [2]
Prisoners of war during World War II faced vastly different fates due to the POW conventions adhered to or ignored, depending on the theater of conflict, and the behaviour of their captors. During the war approximately 35 million soldiers surrendered, with many held in the prisoner-of-war camps .
Operation Big Switch was the repatriation of all remaining prisoners of the Korean War. Ceasefire talks had been going on between the North Korean, Chinese and United Nations Command (UNC) forces since 1951, with the main point of contention being the repatriation of all prisoners to their home countries, in accordance with Article 118 of the ...
President Zelensky has shared footage of the moment Ukrainian prisoners of war were reunited with their families. The service personnel returned home following an agreed prisoner swap with Russia ...
On 4 May 1945 RAF Bomber Command implemented Operation Exodus, and the first prisoners of war were repatriated by air. Bomber Command flew 2,900 sorties over the next 23 days, carrying 72,500 prisoners of war.