Metal North Vietnamese Army Issue Spoon for POWs
name: label: user
content: Rollins, David
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Silver metal spoon.
label: Description
content: Specific History
label: Description
content: North Vietnamese issue spoon, used by Prisoner of War Commander David "Jack" Rollins, U.S. Navy, who was a POW from May 14, 1967 to March 3, 1973.
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: A Prisoner of War (POW) is someone who is captured and imprisoned by an enemy power during a time of conflict or war. The Geneva Convention in 1949 defined who was to be considered a POW and determined how they were to be treated. The policies brought forth by the Geneva Convention were based on the international humanitarian law, or laws of war.
place: label: used
content: Vietnam
topic: label: Subject
content: POWs
label: related event
content: Vietnam War
label: related event
content: Postwar United States
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0083.20
label: accession number
content: 2004.0083
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0083.20
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Spoon
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 13.97 cm x 4.445 cm