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330-PS-7069-11: Press Release: Claim of 15 U.S. Air Force Personnel being held as Political Prisoners following the Korean War by Chinese Communists, DOD Release of August 19, 1954. The names were: Colonel John K. Arnold, Jr; Major William H. Baumer; Airman Second Class Harry M. Benjamin; Technical Sergeant Howard W. Brown; First Lieutenant Wallace L. Brown; First Lieutenant John W. Buck; First Lieutenant Lyle W. Cameron; Captain Harold E. Fischer; Lieutenant Colonel Edwin L. Heller; Airman First Class Steve E. Kiba; Captain Elmer F. Llewellyn; First Lieutenant Roland W. Parks; Airman Second Class Daniel C. Schmidt; Airman Second Class John W. Thompson, III; Captain Eugene J. Vaadi. The Chinese accused them of spying for the CIA. From unchecked sources, 11 of the 15 were later released. Image: Airman Second Class Daniel C. Schmidt being checked by doctor. The photographs were taken by Communist photographers and brought back to the United States by U.N. Secretary General Hammarskjold. They have been sent to the next of kin, together with Communist medical reports concerning the health of the prisoners concerned. (3/11/2015).

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2015

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