An Thoi POWs

Loading North Vietnamese POWs on C-130 at An Thoi on isolated island of Phu Quoc in the Gulf of Siam … west of South Vietnam and south of Cambodia. This was similar to other POW liberation missions we flew out of Con Son Island – 1973. Prisoners were flown north to a remote jungle airstrip near the DMZ for release. POWs are the ones with pajama-like outfits and white bandanas on their heads. Besides a POW camp, An Thoi was a base for South Vietnamese gunboats, and USN swift patrol boats.