Photo #: NH 97191
Operation "Little Switch", April 1953
"Repatriated Americans at Panmunjom -- Thomas H. Waddill,
HM3, USN, is given communion by Navy Chaplain Lcdr. E. Vaughn
Lyons in Freedom Village, Korea, shortly after his repatriation
from the Communists. Waddill, a Navy corpsman serving with the
5th Regiment of the First Marine Division, was captured by the
Communists on March 26, 1953, in the Vegas Hill action. ..."
Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces,
Far East, under date of 25 April 1953.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands"
collection at the Naval Historical Center.
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