Former Japanese prison guards and liberated allied prisoners of war at a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria during the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). The guards dig up Red Cross cartons intended for the prisoners. They were confiscated and buried by the Japanese. Soldiers stand with guns. A soldier plays guitar. A United States Army general speaks. Panoramic views of emaciated ex-prisoners. The liberated prisoners are loaded into transport planes. The airplane in flight.
U.S. Navy heavy Cruiser USS Augusta CA-31 anchors up at Shanghai port for Manila. Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell,leaves Augusta to command USS Isabel. Admiral receives salutes and farewell from fellow crew members and staff. Few naval soldiers line up and pose. Distant view of USS Augusta departing.6 January 1938.
Opening slate “U.S. Moves Chinese Troops”. In Shanghai, American Navy Personnel spray insecticide, probably DDT, on Nationalist Chinese soldiers using hand pumps after World War II, probably as a delousing measure. The DDT insecticide powder is sprayed into the uniforms and heads of the soldiers. The 26,000 Nationalist Chinese soldiers, part of the United States-trained Nationalist Sixth Army, are mostly bald. Chinese soldier carries supplies in his shoulder and a puppy left arm. 26,000 Chinese Nationalist soldiers, carrying equipment, are led to ships heading to Manchuria to deter Soviet invasion.
A Vietnamese and an American military police officers on board a patrolling boat throw hand grenades into the water and grenades explode. A patrolling boat with a United States flag patrols in mid sea.
A patrolling boat of United States 720th military police battalion sails through the sea. Officers stop a sampan sailing through the sea for search. A Vietnamese child ties rope from the edge of the sampan to the edge of the patrolling boat. Officers get into sampan and conduct search. They check papers and identity cards of civilians. Sampan is allowed to go and officers get back to patrolling boat as it moves towards docks.
Vietnamese soldiers with Viet Cong prisoners walk along path through bushes. Prisoners with hands on head. Prisoners interrogated by South Vietnamese Intelligence officer Lieutenant Nguyen Khoan with U.S. adviser, Captain Edward N. Fletcher, from MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Group) Team 28.
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