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Burst of Joy
Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph
Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, taken on March 17, 1973, at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California, United States involving Lt Col Robert L.
Stirm and his family.[1][2]
Background
The first group of American POWs leaving North Vietnamese prison camps left Hanoi on a United States Air Force (USAF) Lockheed C-141 Starlifter nicknamed the Hanoi Taxi, which flew them to Clark Air Base in the Philippines for medical examinations.
On March 17, the plane landed at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California. Even though there were only twenty POWs of that first increment released aboard the plane, almost 400 family members turned up for the homecoming.[3]
USAF Lieutenant Colonel Robert L.
Stirm made a speech[4] "on behalf of himself and other POWs who had arrived from Vietnam as part of Operation Hom