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U.S. Colonel Kirkpatrick awards Purple Hearts to a group of injured former POW late in Korean War.
Operation Little Switch effort underway for repatriation of former prisoners of war near end of the Korean War. Released POW (Prisoners Of War) had been taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tokyo, Japan. A number of injured former POW U.S. Army soldiers are seen receiving Purple Heart awards from U.S. Army Colonel Kirkpatrick. Several views of Colonel awarding Purple Hearts to six soldiers, including two African American soldiers. The medals pinned on the robes of the hospital patients. (A larger Operation Big Switch followed, in August 1953).
Japanese students in front of a school building in Tokyo, Japan.
Japanese student protest at Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan. Banner in Japanese read “Chuo University Neighborhood Association”. Young boys throw stones and swing sticks. They listen to a young man speaking into microphone. Police arrives to control the mob. Students enter a building with flags in their hand.
Emperor Hirohito's garden party is attended by foreign dignitaries and diplomats at his palace in Tokyo, Japan.
Emperor Hirohito's garden party at his palace in Tokyo, Japan. Emperor Hirohito's post war garden party is attended by 1500 guests. The Imperial family, government officials, foreign dignitaries and diplomats gather in the palace gardens. People talk and laugh. Traditional pageantry in view.
U.S. 35th air policemen get into a truck parked outside U.S. Army Far East Air Forces headquarters during riots in Tokyo, Japan.
U.S. 35th air policemen parked outside U.S. Army FEAF (Far East Air Forces) headquarters in Tokyo. American soldiers emerge from the FEAF headquarters building and line up with their gear on sidewalk across the street. It is raining. An officer reads orders to the soldiers and they get into a truck. An air police jeep backs up. The jeep and the truck pull away. View of top of the building, from which the United Nations and U.S. flags fly.
Liberated POW get dressed in clean uniforms and Red Cross workers make tags for the returnees in Tokyo.
Operation Little Switch repatriation operation late in Korean War (followed by Operation Big Switch in August), in which released United States former POW (Prisoners Of War) are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tokyo, Japan. The liberated soldiers get dressed in clean uniforms. Red Cross workers make tags for the returnees. A Red Cross nurse smiles. A Greek patient reading in bed. The patient smiles.
A Japanese dignitary moves across Imperial Palace bridge in Tokyo; Richard Nixon exits Imperial Palace after visit
A horse driven carriage escorted by royal guards carrying a Japanese dignitary passes over the Nijubashi Bridge inside the Tokyo Imperial Palace (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan) in Japan. A horse-drawn carriage moves inside the grounds of the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Honor guards salute to United states Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Patricia Nixon, as they exit the Imperial Palace in Tokyo after visiting Emperor Hirohito. Vice President Nixon and Pat Nixon enter a waiting a car, during their stop in Tokyo on their Far East trip in the fall of 1953.