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Former POW Colonel Bill Austin, USAF retired, looks at a photo of himself from a repatriation flight with SMSgt Jodelle Waring from the 445th AES during a POW reunion remembrance flight onboard the 'Hanoi Taxi' before the aircraft is retired. More than 120 former POW's, from the Vietnam War and their families will help the 445th Airlift Wing retire the Air Force's last C-141C Starlifter, the 'Hanoi Taxi' tail number 660177, during ceremonies at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, May 5th and 6th 2006. The Hanoi Taxi was the first aircraft to arrive in Hanoi in February 1973 to pick up the POWs returning to the United States following repatriation.(U.S. Air Force photo by TSgt Rick Sforza, 4th Combat Camera)

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