5 August 1953
Operation Big Switch Repatriation
Large-scale exchange of prisoners begins after the Korean armistice under Operation Big Switch.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Panmunjom in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Large-scale exchange of prisoners begins after the Korean armistice under Operation Big Switch.
Provenance
These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match United States of America and Panmunjom. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.
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