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At a repatriation ceremony at Yokota Air Base (AB), Japan (JPN), members of the United Nations (UN) Honor Guard pay their final respects to US soldiers who died during the Korean War and have been returned by the North Koreans. The soldiers will be flown home to the USA for burial. (SUBSTANDARD)

At a repatriation ceremony at Yokota Air Base (AB), Japan (JPN), members of the United Nations (UN) Honor Guard carry a casket as they pay their final respects to US soldiers who died during the Korean War and have been returned by the North Koreans. The soldiers will be flown home to the USA for burial. (SUBSTANDARD)

At a repatriation ceremony at Yokota Air Base (AB), Japan (JPN), members of the United Nations (UN) Honor Guard carry a casket as they pay their final respects to US soldiers who died during the Korean War and have been returned by the North Koreans. The soldiers will be flown home to the USA for burial. (SUBSTANDARD)

At the repatriation ceremony, a member of the United Nations Honor Guard salutes transfer cases containing remains of US soldiers killed during the Korean War. A joint US-North Korean team recovered the remains from the Chosin reservoir. The remains of seventeen soldiers were flown to Yokota Air Base from North Korea

United Nations Honor Guard personnel carry a transfer case containing the remains of a US soldier killed during the Korean War at a repatriation ceremony Yokota Air Base. A joint US-North Korean team recovered the remains from the Chosin reservoir. The remains of seventeen soldiers were flown to Yokota Air Base from North Korea

A couple of hundred people honored seventeen transfer cases containing the remains of US soldiers killed during the Korean War during a repatriation ceremony at Yokota Air Base. A joint US-North Korean team recovered the remains from the Chosin reservoir in North Korea

A couple of hundred people honored seventeen transfer cases containing the remains of US soldiers killed during the Korean War during a repatriation ceremony at Yokota Air Base. A joint US-North Korean team recovered the remains from the Chosin reservoir in North Korea

Members of the United Nations Honor Guard carry the remains of soldiers found in Korea. The remains were found in North Korea around the city of Pyongyang, within Unsan and Kujang provinces, near the Chong Chon River and around the Chosin Reservoir. In all, 17 bodies were discovered. The United Nations held a Repatriation Ceremony upon their return to NATO soil. The ceremony consists of a 21-gun salute, a prayer, a bagpipe tribute, and a wreath tribute from the local VFW Post

US Army Japan (USARJ) Command Chaplain, Colonel (COL) Sidney J. Marceaux, USA, leads the Yokota AB and United Nations personnel in prayer during a Repatriation Ceremony. The ceremony honors the remains of lost soldiers' brought back to protected soil. The remains were found in North Korea around the city of Pyongyang, within Unsan and Kujang provinces, near the Chong Chon River and around the Chosin Reservoir. In all, 17 bodies were discovered. The United Nations held a Repatriation Ceremony upon their return to NATO soil

At a repatriation ceremony at Yokota Air Base (AB), Japan (JPN), members of the United Nations (UN) Honor Guard pay their final respects to US soldiers who died during the Korean War and have been returned by the North Koreans. The soldiers will be flown home to the USA for burial. (SUBSTANDARD)

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Base: Yokota Air Base

Country: Japan (JPN)

Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Val Gempis, USAF

Release Status: Released to Public

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