Prisoner of War Tin Cup with Writing
name: label: user
content: Rollins, David
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: White metal cup with "Trieu Viet" in red and blue letters on the side. Wire wrapped around cup handle.
label: Description
content: Specific History
label: Description
content: This cup, given to the North Vietnamese Army by the North Koreans as a "friendship" cup, was given to Commander David "Jack" Rollins, U.S. Navy, a prisoner of war from May 14, 1967, to March 4, 1973. The wire wrapped around the cup's handle was used to make needles. The North Vietnamese Army never figured out where the needles they confiscated from Rollins came from.
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. In 1949 the Geneva Convention in 1949 defined who was to be considered a POW and determined how they were to be treated. The policies established by the Geneva Convention were based on the international humanitarian law, or laws of war.
place: label: Associated Place
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
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content: ThinkFinity
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: 2004.0083.19
label: accession number
content: 2004.0083
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0083.19
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cup
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 8.89 cm x 12.065 cm x 9.525 cm