Allied prisoners of war after being released, arriving in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. United States sailors wait at a railroad station at Nagasaki as a train pulls in at the platform. Wounded allied soldiers on stretchers being unloaded from the railroad train. A United States Navy medical officer shakes hands with patients in the stretcher as they come off the train. Some released Allied prisoners pass through a coffee line at the station. A prisoner fills his coffee mug and moves away. Prisoners receive coffee and donuts. Litter patients being carried out from the train and taken away. The released prisoners sit and chat. A man with a dog. The released prisoners outside the American Red Cross office at the station. The soldiers drink beer and eat sandwiches.
Liberated American prisoner reading the Stars & Stripes newspaper, at German prison camp for allied airmen (Stalag 7A) near Moosburg, Germany. Several American former prisoners being interviewed, include African American 2nd Lt. Alexander Jefferson, of the Tuskegee Airmen. Former prisoners posing in a group for the camera. Former prisoners strolling around the grounds of the prison, and sitting outside its buildings. (They are awaiting transport to local airfields where they will board C-47s to Camp Lucky Strike near Le Havre, France, for processing home.)
German prisoners after Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. German prisoners being marched along road. U.S. DUKW (six-wheel-drive amphibious truck) passes by prisoners. Barrage balloons in sky. Prisoners behind barbed wire. Prisoners under guard of U.S. MP(Military Police). Prisoners wade through surf towards a U.S. landing craft on the beach.
United State prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II. Captured U.S. prisoners of war in Corregidor Island during Japanese occupation. Army nurses with the captured prisoners of war. A wounded prisoner of war walking with crutches. Injured prisoners of war smoking cigarettes. The flag of the U.S. crumpled on the ground. Brigadier General Lewis Beebe, Colonel Bowles, General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, and General George F. Moore inside their cells in a prison camp. The flag of the U.S. on the ground and the Japanese flag is hoisted on a flagpole.
Former prisoners seen after being set free from Nazi prison camps in Germany at end of World War 2. The prisoners shake hands after being set free. The prisoners include Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, Baroness Schuschnugg, German industrialist Fritz Thyssen and Baron Schell. The Baroness stands with a young girl and a man as she smiles after being set free. Other prisoners include Bishop of Clermont-Ferrand Gabriel Piquet, former Prime Minister of Hungary Miklos Kallay and Commanding officer of Greek Army General Alexandros Papagos. German Army General Franz Halder and his wife after being set free. Prince Leopold raises his coat collar to reveal his prisoner number. German General Franz Halder stands with his wife.
American and Korean prisoners of war in Seoul, South Korea during the Korean War. American and Korean prisoners enter and leave the Japanese Governor General Building. Columns of prisoners walk along a road. American prisoners have hands tied behind their backs. American and Korean prisoners seated on ground. American prisoners of war are seen bare footed.
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