German troops captured in the battle of Verdun, during World War One, are held temporarily at prison camp in Souilly (Meuse), France. French soldiers stand guard with the prisoners. Conditions are rainy and muddy. German prisoners line up to receive canvas tents for their immediate shelter. For their first meal they receive bread and canned food. Group of captured German officers pose. The German prisoners are loaded into army trucks for transport to more permanent prison camps, in the rear. (Slate says "They will return to the peace camps in France" or words to that effect.)
Turkish prisoners of war being repatriated in Europe. They board a ship and some receive cigarettes from well-dressed civilian men who reach from the dock to the former prisoners, on board. Several former prisoners pose in the tatters and rags of their former uniforms. Many of the former prisoners wear garrison caps. All have had recent hair cuts and appear clean. Many prisoners are seen gathered in an open yard in the port of embarkation, which also contains a shelter and a fenced area filled with baggage, in the background.
Japanese prisoners aboard a U.S. ship off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan. A vehicle burns on a beach in the background. Captured Japanese prisoners in a LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) alongside a transport ship. Prisoners being guarded by U.S. Marines. Japanese prisoners on decks of ship being guarded. Prisoners in Navy dungarees stand about on decks of the ship.
After the battle of Tarawa in Pacific Theater. Battered palm trees and wreckage on the beach in Tarawa. American marines in a Japanese bunker. A group of Japanese prisoners sit on a beach as marines guard them. Marines carry boxes up to the beach. Korean prisoners carry wounded and supplies along a road guarded by American marines. Japanese and Korean prisoners searched and guarded by marines. Wounded Japanese and Korean prisoners lie on the stretchers. Prisoners squat on a beach. Small tractor hauls a captured torpedo on dolly up the beach. (World War II period).
An organized theatrical group of prisoners stage a play at a prison in Valencia, Spain. The leading character is a missionary who preaches the Christian Gospel to Native American Indians. Prison audience applauds. Painting of Virgin of Merced, Saint of pardon, Saint of prisoners, adorns the wall of the theater. Director and staff of the prison applaud. (World War II period).
From "The Battle of the Somme." A Battalion of British Lancashires return after a successful attack on Germans during Battle of the Somme in World War 1. Ambulatory wounded British and German (prisoners) walking back from the front, assisting one another. British troops escorting German prisoners of war. Two Germans carrying a wounded comrade on a stretcher. Lancashires posing with German prisoners. A long line of returning Lancashires interspersed with German prisoners of war. More German soldiers (prisoners) carrying wounded comrades on stretchers.
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