Operation Homecoming

For the book and documentary about American service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s, see Operation Homecoming (book) and Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience.
Operation Homecoming

US Army Captain John William Parsels at Gia Lam Airport, repatriated during Operation Homecoming
Date12 February 1973 – April 1973
Location
South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and Clark Air Base
Result Repatriation of 591 American POWs held by the North Vietnamese Army, Viet Cong, and allies
Belligerents
United States North Vietnam
Viet Cong

Operation Homecoming was the return of 591 American prisoners of war (POWs) held by North Vietnam following the Paris Peace Accords that ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

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