- Title: PHILIPPINES: CLARK AIR BASE PREPARES FOR U.S. PRISONERS OF WAR.
- Date: 27th January 1973
- Summary: 1. SV Clark Airbase control tower PULL BACK TO GV Airfield 0.08 2. LV & SV Aircraft lands and taxis (4 shots) 0.32 3. CU Emblem on side of aircraft: Pacific Air Force 0.35 4. CU Red Cross on tailfin 0.38 5. GV & SV Hydraulic platform operating inside aircraft (3 shots) 0.53 6. GV & SV Aircraft staff checking patient seating & medical needs (5 shots) 1.05 7. GV & SV Clark Hospital (2 shots) 1.10 8. SV Patients on verandah 1.14 9. LV hospital buses 1.20 10. SV & GV Hospital staff check patients' records (2 shots) 1.31 11. GV & SV Hospital staff using equipment (5 shots) 1.44 12. SV Doctor talks to patient (2 shots) 2.00 13. GV General activity in corridor 2.06 There's still no word from Hanoi about plans to release United States Prisoners-of-War, but as soon as the green light is given, a massive operation to bring them back safely and look after them will go into operation. From the moment Hanoi decides the men will be released, a virtual army of doctors and nurses will stand by them at the big Clark Air Base in the Philippines, and specially equipped aircraft will take off for Hanoi to get them. This aircraft is called a C-Nine. It's a virtual flying hospital, and it's the aircraft chosen to make the repatriation flights. During the Vietnam war, it was used to fly inured troops from Vietnam to safety. It is equipped like a hospital complete with a small operating theatre and a ward. With a range of 2,300 miles, the C9 will be able to carry forty prisoners-of-war from Hanoi to the Clark Air Base in about two and a half hours. The Clark hospital itself is said to be one of the finest of its type in Asia. The United States Government has organised a team of about fifty doctors and one hundred nurses to be on standby round the clock from the moment the word is given that the prisoners are freed. There's also plenty of physical therapy equipment there to help start getting the men's injured arms and legs back into action. There'll also be psychiatrists and doctors for the special needs of prisoners. All that's needed now is the word from Hanoi,and the world's biggest instant hospital goes into action. Initials TS/BOB/BB/1836 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: CLARK AIR BASE, PHILIPPINES.
- Country: Philippines
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