Operations big switch
Media
Part of The Philippine Educator
- Title
- Operations big switch
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1953
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- A FTER three years of protracted fighting in Korea's plains tnd "heartbreak ridges." the UN command and the Chinese and North Korean communists finally agreed on a truce last month and on an exchange of prisoners of war held by both sides. Labelled "Operations Big Switch'' <the first exchange of prisoners last year was called "Operations Little Switch''). the POW exchange is the fruit of long month<: of dickering over the conference taMe with sane but hardly rE>asonable communists. The pictures on this and the following pages s'IJow some stages of the operations and reveal some details about how the Reds treat their prisoners. At press time, only 35 FiliP.in~, ?EFTOK S. 9ldiers,have been released by the Reds. <All picture~, tlsed are by CO!trtesy of the Evening News.) J I \ 27 ; - ' iEHL Brig Gen Jesus Vargas delivering welcome address . . _, •