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U.S. Navy Training Film “Code of Conduct” for Prisoners of War Operation Homecoming 26804 (1973)

1973 · Short film · 28 min

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This is a training film was created by the U.S. Navy and the Dept. of Defense to educate inductees about the Code of Conduct for prisoners (:09). The film opens with a scene of 473 American POW’s returning home from Hanoi in the spring of 1973 (1:00). As the war in Vietnam drew to a close, American soldiers were released in early 1973 as part of Operation Homecoming. Press swarm their arrival (1:09). The film focuses on the ‘code of conduct’ which returned the men home safely (1:59). The code itself; introduced in 1955 is read (2:07). It then turns to a reenactment of Gen. George Washington and the Minutemen during the Revolutionary War (5:17). Alexander Hamilton’s address to the New York Commission is reenacted (5:41) prior to an image of the Declaration of Independence. A quote from Eisenhower (5:53). The first POW to be interviewed is Bob Fant (5:58); a retired Navy radar Intercept officer; working here as an instructor in a Navy Survival School. Colonel Fred Cherry; an African American fighter pilot is pictured whom had been on his third deployment to SE Asia on a SAM Suppression mission when his F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber was shot down (7:27). Fred retired and became a management consultant (7:30) (he passed in 2016). Commander Tim Sullivan (8:34); a radar observer and F-4 Phantom flyer, became a POW after being shot down over North Vietnam in November of 1967. His target at the time was a railroad bridge. Captain Stan Newell (9:42) was 19 year old E4 when he was…

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Running time
28 minutes
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Ephemeral Films

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