Photo #: NH 97197
Operation "Big Switch", August 1953
"Communion in Freedom Village -- George M. Neal, aviation
machinist's mate, airman, USN, ... received communion from Navy
chaplain Lieutenant Commander Leo F. Rice in a tent at Freedom
Village, Munsan, Korea. Neal, a helicopter crewman, was captured
by the Communists on July 10th 1953, after his aircraft was shot
down while on a pilot rescue mission in North Korea."
Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces,
Far East, under date of 11 August 1953.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands"
collection at the Naval Historical Center.
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