Film opens with slate reading: "Cabanatuan Prisoners' Hospitalization at Time of Repatriation." Brief view of a tent-like field hospital where former POWs were being treated, behind American lines, with rescued American POWs in beds and several Army nurses attending them. After that is an extended view of several ambulatory patients engaged in conversations at a hospital behind American lines. At TC:01:35, the scene reverts to earlier time, and a patient is seen lying in the ruins of the prison camp on the day of the rescue raid (Jan 30, 1945). He is being tended to by another soldier, with whom he converses. Two former prisoners are seen in a straw-lined cart prepared for transport back to the American lines, by water buffalo. The remainder of the film shows the former POWs and their rescuers leaving the Cabanatuan prison, on their way back to the American lines. Some non-ambulatory former prisoners are seen lying on straw- covered ground.
Film opens with slate reading: "Evacuation to Hospitals." Next, on January 30, 1945, the day of the "Cabanatuan Raid" (Mission to rescue prisoners of war from the Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan) rescuers are seen carrying a former POW from a building, on a litter. Local Filipinos and others are standing on the porch of the prison building. An ambulatory former prisoner comes down the steps unaided. Several rescued prisoners are seated on chairs, conversing. Closeups of some of them. Two weakened and bandaged former prisoners help each other up some steps. Slate states: "Man with Cane afflicted with Beri-Beri." A severely disabled former prisoner, with a cane, makes his way unaided across the grass. Rescuers and Filipinos are in the background, along with some carts used to evacuate disabled former prisoners back behind American lines.
Views of a market in Ukraine during World War 2. Film opens with glimpse of a man splitting firewood, and continues with scenes of various vendors and numerous customers in an open air market on a pleasant day. . People purchase food and clothing. A group of men seen conversing.. A man plays a balalaika. A German soldier is seen briefly with a group of civilians.
The role of women as active community members in the United States. A woman addresses members of the League of Women Voters. The posters of the candidates of elections on a table. Posters on a wall. Children play in a hall, being babysat by one woman as the other women meet. A woman walks with a baby in a pram. She talks to another woman. The League of Women Voters disseminates information on issues and candidates. Women members search the voters, make a list of the voters and call them to give them the information. Women make phone calls. A woman pastes the posters of candidate on a wall. People seated in a hall. Candidates address the women and talk to them about why they should vote them. People applaud. People line up in front of a hall on the election day to vote. The parents-teachers association (PTA) plans a new dance hall and organizes dance for high school students. Students dance and enjoy in the hall. They dance a square dance (Virginia Reel?) Narrator describes the new dance hall and activities there as an established weapon against juvenile delinquency. The kids eat food at the new hall. Boys attend a movie screening (sponsored by the PTA and the board of eduction) on human Birth and Growth. A lecturer points out parts of the human body in a skeleton diagram on the screen. The association sponsors dental examinations and a school lunch program for the school children. Elementary age school children receive hot food in a school lunch cafeteria line and sit together at tables eating lunch. A dentist examines the teeth of a child. A woman teaches drawing to children.
The French line ship, SS Lorraine, in camouflage paint, seen backing into port at Bordeaux, France, on June 24, 1918. Belgian troops of the ACM Corps (Autos-Canons-Mitrailleuses, Belgian armored unit) disembark. They are seen as they walk down a gangway from the ship, in combat uniforms and steel helmets, and carrying their weapons and personal gear. (Note: Soldiers of this armored unit from Belgium fought alongside the Imperial Russian army against German and Austrian troops in 1915 in Russia, during World War 1, before the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, after which they were stranded in hostile territory. They left Vladivostok for the United States on the SS Sheridan, and docked at San Francisco on May 12, 1918. They were warmly greeted as they proceeded across the U.S. to New York city, where they participated in the Memorial Day Parade. After leaving New York City, aboard the SS La Lorraine, they reached Bordeaux on June 24 1918.)
People gather to celebrate Mother-in-Law Day in Amarillo, Texas. Buildings along the sides of a street. A man gives a bouquet to an old lady. A man and an old woman talk. Another man walks with an old woman. They celebrate and enjoy.
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