American prisoners of war in Cabanatuan, Philippines. Exterior of a building. The liberated prisoners await hospital treatment. They stand near a military vehicle. They discuss amongst themselves. A man suffering from beri-beri disease smokes. The prisoners drink water from a hand pump. They stand in a line to take their meals. Men seated at tables write on a paper. They take out cartons of hidden Red Cross supplies. They take out the food packets and eat food.
Wreckage in Cabanatuan, Philippines. Exterior of a destroyed building. Men walk outside the building. Interior of the building. Trees in the area.
The American prisoners of war in Cabanatuan, Philippines. The hospitalization of the prisoners at the time of repatriation. The prisoners lying on the hospital beds. Medics treat them. Three prisoners discuss amongst themselves. A wounded prisoner on bed. Prisoners walk along with some medics. A building along the side of a field. Two prisoners smoke and talk. Some of them rest.
American prisoners of war in Cabanatuan, Philippines. A man smokes. A wounded is carried on a stretcher outside a building. Some other people walk outside the building. A group of men seated on chairs and discuss. A man walks with a wounded. They walk upstairs. A man suffering from beri-beri walks with the help of a cane. Men on wheel carts in the background.
United States prisoners after being released from a Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II. 511 Allied prisoners after being liberated from the Japanese prison camp. Soldiers get off a truck. Liberated soldiers share their experiences of the life at Japanese prison camps. Sergeant Robert speaks that he was taken prisoner in Singapore. He says that a number of prisoners lost their lives due to diphtheria, cholera and other diseases. He was taken to Thailand and brought back to Singapore from where the prisoners went aboard a Japanese ship. Majority of the prisoners lost their lives after the Japanese ship was sunk due to American air attack near Luzon. Then he was taken to the Cabanatuan prison camp. Another liberated prisoner Sergeant Samuel Goldy expresses gladness on being released by the Americans after 3 years of imprisonment.
Soldiers of US Army 6th Ranger Battalion, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas stand along with American prisoners of war they freed from Japanese prison at Cabanatuan, Philippines, in a daring raid behind Japanese lines, in World War 2. The soldiers converse with liberated prisoners. They board trucks. Thatched huts in the background. Some of the released prisoners and soldiers march on a field and others aboard the trucks as they head back to the American lines.