Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Release of American POWs

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Release of American POWs[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Feb 2022 at 20:53:08 (UTC)

Original – An Army officer of North Vietnam talks with American prisoner of war Richard Springman, who is about to be released.
Reason
No copyright issues, good EV, and reasonably high quality considering it's almost fifty years old.
Articles in which this image appears
Prisoner of war
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
Creator
SSGT Herman Kokojan
  • Support as nominatorAn anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 20:53, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • The source link doesn't work, which happens, unfortunately. But I do suspect a bit of research will get us a higher resolution copy, for what that's worth. Compositionally, a bit of a mess, but I'm inclined to forgive that as "chaotic picture of a chaotic event" Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 22:10, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Probably worth mentioning there's at least one variant: https://nara.getarchive.net/media/spc-4-richard-springman-us-army-captured-25-may-70-talks-with-a-north-vietnamese-4323f6 Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.6% of all FPs 00:08, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment – Jumbled comp. Subject Springman's head is chopped at top. – Sca (talk) 13:18, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 04:52, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]