Crowd observe an air show in Tokyo Haneda International Airport. Boeing Stratocruiser in background. Glider is readied for flight. Two lines of men dressed in white uniforms pull ropes. A glider (JA-0015) takes off and climbs to approximately 50 feet and then lands. Aircraft such as the SA-16, B-26, C-46, and C-119 are seen in background. A contestant sits in glider and two men place hook on it.
A glider takes off. Woman contestant sits in the glider. Man and a woman contestants sit in a two seat glider. A glider becomes airborne as it is towed by a car. Spectators observe glider meet.
Japanese crowds attend an air show in Tokyo Haneda International Airport. A Japanese boy touches bottom of the fuselage of a Boeing Stratocruiser. Spectators surround F-86 Sabre fighter jet on display. Republic F-84 Thunderjet on display. Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw helicopter on display. SA-16 (Grumman HU-16 Albatross) on display. Crowd surrounds a B-26 Marauder on display.
North American F-86 Sabre transonic jet fighter aircraft on display at the Tokyo Haneda International Airport. Pan-American World Airlines Boeing B377 Stratocruiser aircraft. Written on its nose 'Clipper Bald Eagle'. Flag extended out of the cockpit window of the airplane. Airman leaning against truck. One of the engines of the Boeing Stratocruiser is removed. Japanese man waves from cockpit. Japanese girl Keiko Katsuki on ground returns wave. The Japanese flag at the top of a pole. Streamers used to guide wires, approximately eight, lined with flags of various nations. H-13 landing. Japanese trainer type plane takes off and circles airfield. Stunt flying. Two liaison type aircraft as they fly over the area.
Operation Little Switch ((first phase of Operation Big 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.
Operation Little Switch for repatriation of former prisoners of war late in the Korean War (followed by Operation Big Switch in August). Released United States soldiers who were POW (Prisoners Of War) are in transport from Panmunjom, Korea to Tokyo annex in Japan. Medics load sick or injured U.S. Army soldiers aboard ambulances at the Tokyo annex. An African American soldier, former prisoner of war, smiles. Ambulatory former prisoners walk out. Several views of smiling African American patients. Mrs. Maruine Doran Clark, wife of General Mark Clark, shakes hand with repatriated U.S. Army soldiers at the airbase.