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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97196

Operation "Big Switch", August 1953


"Freedom -- Carrying a brand-new navy white hat, Zacheus A. Smith, Jr., hospital corpsman, third class, USN, ... climbs out of an ambulance at Freedom Village, Munsan, Korea, the processing center for returning POWs."
Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 10 August 1953.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

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22 December 1999