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.
Irish people face crisis in Ireland during World War II. People on a street. A horse drawn carriage carrying people on the street. Men and women walk on the street in the background. A man walk in between the parked bicycles. People stand in a group on a path way. The Irish people wait in a line to buy goods. U.S. Minister Gery seated at a desk looks into papers. Prime Minister of Ireland Eamon De Valera looks into papers. The Prime Minister walks out of a building. People crowd outside the building. A policeman controls the crowd. Smiling, happy boy and girl Irish children crowd near the front and beside the policeman. A car drives in between the crowd gathered on the street. Two men stand on a boundary wall and take pictures in the background. The Irish soldiers march. The Colleens pray. The Irish troops stand in formation and pray. The Irish girls kneel down praying.
25th Annual Junior boxing championship at U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The young boys practice in a boxing ring for the championship. Two young boys fight in the ring. Others stand outside the boxing ring and watch. The young boys boxing. A referee in the ring. The boys boxing. Two other boys in the ring boxing. One of them cry after a strong punch. The boy sits on a bench. The boy goes back in the ring and fights back. Both the boys fighting. The spectators in the background. (World War II period).
The U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team show their skating skills at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. Olympic pair skaters, Yvonne Sherman and Robert Swenning, of the New York Figure Skating Club, demonstrate a pair lift and side-by-side spirals. Spectators watch them performing. Richard Button of the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society performs 2 axels, and a flying camel spin into a back sit spin, changing into a forward scratch spin. (These are shown in slow motion to better show his movements.) New Yorker Eileen Seigh performs 4 split jumps, 3 axels and a forward sit spin into a final scratch spin. (Note: Eileen and Dick trained with Gus Lussi in Lake Placid. The pairs team, Yvonne Sherman and Robert Swenning were pupils of Pierre Brunet, a former French National champion, who , with his wife Andree, were World pair champions ).
The Potsdam Conference in Berlin, Germany. The delegates in a conference hall. A German officer after defeat signs a document. The officers shake hands with Generals. The ruins in Berlin. A damaged building. People stand on the ruins and debris . Men use shovels and fill the dirt in buckets. A close up of a German woman. A woman shows her anger. The delegates enter a hall for the Potsdam conference. Stalin meets a delegate. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill stand together. Other stand in the background. The delegates meet each other. The conference begins. All delegates including Truman, Stalin and Churchill sit around a conference table.
Nimitz Day in Washington DC. Aircraft in formation over Washington DC. A large stage decorated to look like the deck of a battleship in the foreground. U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz's car pulls into the Washington Monument grounds. Nimitz riding in a car waves at the gathered crowd. Policemen on motorcycles in front of the car. People in the background. Other officials arrive in a car. The battleship stage in the background. People crowd near the stage. The Admiral waves to the crowd.
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