Staff Sergeant Alphonso R. Riate and Sergeant Abel L. Kavanaugh, former prisoners of war captured during the Vietnam War, are assisted by a Marine escort officer at the United States Naval Hospital in Camp Pendleton, California on March 16, 1973. This image is from Operation Homecoming, which involved the repatriation of US Marine POWs, and captures the moment of their arrival back in the United States.

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