On this day in 1973, the release of U.S. POWs begins. Pictured: newly freed prisoners of war celebrate as their C-141A aircraft lifts off from Hanoi, North Vietnam during Operation Homecoming. The Paris peace settlement made it possible for 591 POWs to return to American soil.

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