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On February 14 1973 a plane carrying the first 20 former prisoners of war from Vietnam landed at travis air force base in California who was the first to touch the us mainland?
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Operation Homecoming involved the transport of released POWs during Jan to April 1973. I don't find anything about October 1973. But most links only reference their transport to Philippines or Hawaii, and not to the US mainland. Here are some links; these might have a clue.
Photo of one airman kissing the tarmac at Hickam, Hawaii.
http://starbulletin.com/2003/02/14/news/story2.HTML
Info on POWs released by Operation Homecoming and others who escaped or were released earlier.
http://www.afa.org/magazine/Aug1999/0899pow.asp
http://www.axpow.org/stories-february2003.htm
List of 722 POWs
http://www.faraway-soclose.org/returnees.HTML
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