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POW Reunions Stir Heart Of U S POWs At Valley Forge
Seven more former prisoners of war arrived at Valley Forge Military Hospital to receive medical care and reunite with relatives after flights from Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines and McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey. The group includes Fe Sgt Bill A. Baird Wooster Ohio and others as listed. Navy Lt Robert E Wideman, who spent almost six years in North Vietnam, checked into Philadelphia Naval Hospital after returning from the Philippines. He spoke to about 100 people at McGuire and later met his wife and parents in Philadelphia. Wideman was shot down May 6 1967 on a strike mission aboard an A-4 Skyhawk from USS Hancock.
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Valley Forge
Valley Forge Military Hospital
Army
Clark Air Force Base
Phillipines
McGuire Air Force Base
New Jersey
Bill A. Baird
Wooster
Ohio
Carroll E. Flora Jr
David N. Harker
Lynchburg
CWO
Toger A. Miller
Sharon
Conn
Richard R. Perricone
Joseph Rose II
Morgantown
W. Va
Gail M. Kerns
Valley Bead
Navy
Robert E Wideman
North Vietnam
Philadelphia Naval Hospital
Wideman
Hanoi
James W. Bailey
McGuire
Philadelphia
Patricia
Drexel Hill
Lakewood
Cleveland
North Vietnnam
Hancock