U.S. troops in Germany towards the end of World War II. U.S. troops fire mortars at German targets. A soldier loads shells in a mortar.
Liberated Chinese and Korean prisoners arrive in South Korea after the Korean War. The group includes 14,000 former communist Chinese (People's Republic of China) soldiers who are defecting to Taiwan (Republic of China) and are welcomed as "anti-Communist Heroes." The liberated prisoners leave stockades of Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission. Freed prisoners carry flags and get into trucks which pass along streets of Seoul. A crowd cheers for the prisoners.
U.S. 6th Marines, 22nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Injured Okinawan civilians who were hiding in a large cave are treated by U.S. medical corpsmen. The Marines stand on the edge of a large cave. American soldier carries an injured civilian woman to a open bed truck loaded with other Okinawa civilians. Water and food is given to Japanese prisoners. U.S. Army soldier gives water to a native civilian girl and boy.
U.S. 6th Marines, 22nd Regiment and 2nd Battalion in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Smoke rises from a grenade explosion. A Japanese soldier lying on the ground is shot with a pistol by a U.S. Marine and is dragged out of a culvert under a roadway. A native or a prisoner is seen crouched and looking into a cave hole. A phosphorous grenade is thrown into the culvert that passes under the road.
Jewish prisoners are returned to Israeli authorities in Palestine during 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Arabs standing at a sandbagged position. Men at artillery guns. Israeli officers and soldiers arrive. Jewish prisoners arrive. The Red Cross supervises the humanitarian transfer.
The end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in Palestine and soon to be Israel. Jewish flags fly from a building. Women look down from the balcony of a building. Jewish people arrive in a truck. Jewish people gather on a street. People celebrate on the streets. Jewish people perform horah dance on the streets. Officials in a car. Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and others of the Provisional State Council including Moshe Sharett and Golda Meir. Jewish people gather in front of a building. An elderly, bearded Jewish man carries a flag of Israel and rides a mule.
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