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Operation Little Switch

HQ, FEAF, TOKYO --- Following their return to Japan after release, the first three U. S. Air Force repatriates relax at an Army hospital in Tokyo. The three (left to right) are Capt. Zach W. Dean of El Dorado, Kansas, an F-51 Mustang pilot shot down on April 22, 1951; A/2C Robert L. Weinbrandt of El Cajon, California, a B-29 "Super Fortress tail gunner captured after his plane was shot down the night of January 28 29, 1953, and A/2C William R. Hilycord of Columbus, Indiana., a B-26 Invader air crewman held since December, 1951.

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