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Repatriation of Captain Dean of U.S. Air Force, chatting with General Otto P Weyland at Tachikawa airbase Tokyo.

Operation Little Switch in which released United States prisoners of war from the Korean War are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tachikawa, Tokyo. The wife of Captain Dean of the Air Force, a returnee, chats with U.S. Air Force General Otto P. Weyland. A U.S. aircraft in the background at Tachikawa Airbase. Captain Dean walks down the ramp of an aircraft with his wife. He kisses his wife. General and other officers stand in the background. Both of them sit in a car. The released POW walking at the air base. Women take pictures.

Date: 1953, April 28
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069612
Released POW (Prisoners Of War) play chess and dominoes in a ward in Tachikawa, Tokyo.

Operation Little Switch in which released POW (Prisoners Of War) are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tachikawa, Tokyo. Two repatriated soldiers play chess on a bed. The soldiers playing chess. A soldier with a cigarette. The soldiers in a group play dominoes in a ward.

Date: 1953, April 28
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069618
Released POW eating food what will probably be the last meal before leaving Korea in Panmunjom, Korea.

Operation Little Switch in which released POW are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tachikawa, Tokyo, and then on to the United States during repatriation of former prisoners late in the Korean War. The released POW (Prisoners Of War) eating food that will probably be the last meal there before leaving Korea. Food items kept in a shelf and on a table. A cook severs food in bowls to U.S. soldiers. Injured or former POW seated on a bed eating a bite of chicken is A/2C Robert L. Weinbrandt of El Cajon, California, a B-29 Super Fortress tail gunner captured after his plane was shot down the night of January 28-29, 1953. A wounded POW drinks soup and eats food kept on his bed. Liberated former prisoners drinking. Another former prisoner eating food.

Date: 1953, April 28
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069610
Men carry released sick prisoners on a stretcher with their luggage out of annex ward in Panmunjom, Korea.

Operation Little Switch in which released U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force POW (Prisoners Of War) are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tachikawa, Tokyo as part of repatriation effort late in the Korean War. Medical staff carry a number of sick or injured US military personnel (former prisoners) on stretcher. The first one seen is A/2C Robert L. Weinbrandt of El Cajon, California, a B-29 "Super Fortress tail gunner captured after his plane was shot down the night of January 28-29, 1953. He is seen being transported with his luggage out of annex ward. Several views of the released, former POW including several taken on stretchers out of the ward, and others that walk out on foot, smiling. Soldiers grab packs of Lucky Strike cigarettes from a basket. A car parked in the background. Officers and nurses in the hospital. General Shambora shakes hands with a released U.S. Army soldier.

Date: 1953, April 28
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069611
Wounded men are transferred to a hospital van and freight is loaded into a freight aircraft at Tachikawa Air Base in Japan.

Activities of United States Air Force 374th Troop Carrier Wing at Tachikawa Air Base in Tokyo, Japan. Planes parked at the air base. A sign: '374th Troop Carrier Wing', 'Hospital Evacuation'. Wounded are carried on litters. A sign: Tachikawa Air Freight. Men load boats, jeeps and tires into a freight aircraft. Wounded men are transferred to a hospital van. U.S. soldiers wearing military gear board a plane. 'Tachikawa Air Base, 374th Troop Carrier Wing' written on the boarding ladder. The U.S. Air Force plane takes off.

Date: 1949
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044781
American troops arrive at Tachikawa Airfield, near Tokyo, for post-war occupational duty. Air Transport Command operations at the airfield.

U.S. Army Air Forces issue flyer's A-3 bag is seen with 5th Air Force patch on it. Armed American troops descending from C-54 transport upon arrival at Tachikawa Airfield, near Tokyo, Japan after World War II. Air Transport Command (ATC) insignia on fuselage of aircraft. Wooden Control tower with sign "Tokyo Base Operation, 3rd Airdrome Squadron". Several red Japanese fire trucks in a row at edge of tarmac, along with two liquid tank trucks and 7 brown Japanese cloth top automobiles marked with crosses on their fenders. A C-47 is parked in background. American soldiers in full combat gear walking across the tarmac. American soldiers, who just arrived in C-54 transport aircraft, line up and collect their baggage from bottom of the aircraft.

Date: 1945, September
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024853
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