US EditionVietnam War POW Robert Stirm, Seen in Iconic 'Burst of Joy' Photo with Family, Dies at 92
Robert L. Stirm spent nearly six years as a POW in North Vietnam and was the subject of the Pulitzer-winning 'Burst of Joy' photo symbolizing the war's end.
- Robert Stirm, a Vietnam War POW featured in an iconic 'burst of joy' photo reuniting with his family, died at 92 in an assisted living facility in Fairfield, California.
- Stirm was a decorated pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and held captive for 1,966 days in POW camps, including the notorious Hanoi Hilton.
- Stirm and late Senator John McCain, who was also a POW, communicated through a tapping code while sharing a wall in solitary confinement, where McCain told Stirm a joke that made him laugh for the first time in captivity.
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Returning Prisoner of War in Iconic ‘Burst of Joy’ Photo Dies at 92
Colonel Robert L. Stirm, the subject of a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, has died at the age of 92. His return after five years as a POW in North Vietnam was immortalized by Associated Press photographer Slava 'Sal' Veder.
Former American soldier Robert Stirm has died at the age of 92. The photo taken of him and his family returning home from Vietnam, after six years of imprisonment, was one of the most famous of the Vietnam War. Shot down in 1967 in a bombing raid on Vietnam, Stirm was imprisoned in the Hanoi Hilton, the cynical nickname for the ruthless detention center for American prisoners of war. He was abused and tortured there. Stirm sat in the cell next t…
Vietnam POW seen reuniting with his family in joyous Pulitzer Prize-winning photo dead at 92
Heroic Vietnam War veteran Robert Stirm — who appeared in the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Burst of Joy" photo showing the long-held POW reuniting with his family in 1973 — died on Veterans Day at 92.
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Vietnam War POW Robert Stirm, seen in iconic 'Burst of Joy' photo with family, dies at 92
Former U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, a POW during the Vietnam War known for the iconic "Burst of Joy" photo reuniting him with his family, has died in California.
Airman behind famed ‘Burst of Joy’ photo dies at 92
Retired Col. Robert L. Stirm, the man featured in the famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photo “Burst of Joy” died on Nov. 11 in Fairfield, California, his daughter, Lorrie Stirm Kitching confirmed to The New York Times. He was 92.The photo itself is iconic: A seemingly anonymous freed Vietnam War prisoner of war’s back is to the camera as his gleeful family runs pell-mell toward him. The image was printed and touted across America, earning photograp…
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