Chain gang on a field in Georgia, United States. Guard with rifle keeps watch. Prisoners of chain gang eat. Warden asks them to get back to work. A prisoner drives a truck. Prisoners dig earth and use shovels. They dump sand in truck. Shackles on feet of a prisoner.
U.S. troops in Germany during World War II. German prisoners, including one who is bandaged, are marched towards a truck on field by U.S. troops. The prisoners get into the open back of the stake truck. A U.S. Guard stands on the cab of the truck and directs the prisoners. The truck filled with German prisoners pulls away.
Liberation of Allied prisoners in Tokyo, Japan towards the end of World War II. U.S. prisoners as they lounge on the deck of hospital ship USS Benevolence (AH-13) in Tokyo Bay. U.S. personnel on the dock wave when a boat approaches. The compound of Japanese POW (Prisoners of War) camp at Nisson Mill Camp near Tokyo shows Allied prisoners of war waving and cheering. Japanese guards can be seen in the compound. A littered street.
United States soldiers in Germany during World War II. A jeep driving past on a road. German prisoners marching towards a stockade. Bomb damaged houses along the sides of a street. Wrecked German equipment by the side of a road. A large group of German prisoners marching. United States Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft diving. A street in a village. Soldiers in a group around an ambulance. Liberated French prisoners. A small group of German soldiers marching with a flag of surrender. The prisoners walking to the stockade. Tanks advancing on the road, including a M4A3E8 Thunderbolt VII. A dead German soldier on a street. American troops walking down the street of the village.
A training film on operations of U.S. forces on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands during World War II. Camouflage Island and Burlesque Island. Damaged buildings and shelters. Several pillboxes and tank ditches are also damaged. Wrecked tanks and other equipment. Important information is gained from captured documents. Japanese prisoners of war are questioned by U.S. soldiers. Korean and Japanese prisoners of war are being interrogated. The prisoners are marched along the beach by the troops. The troops and the prisoners aboard landing crafts underway at sea.
American forces in Leipzig, Germany near the end of World War 2 in Europe. Landmarks include the heavily damaged New Town Hall, Burgplatz, and a church. At start of film, German civilians are seen running along railroad tracks, past war-damaged platform, to reach a train. Hungry German civilian men wrestle with a man on a sidewalk holding a large piece of meat. American soldiers walking across a city square in single file. Two Sherman tanks move across city square following the tracks of a tramway. The overhead electric wires for the tram are visible. More views of American soldiers walking and some in jeeps. A tilted view of the Reform Evangelist Church. Then camera straightens out and shows it properly. In front of the church, two American soldiers sit on a half-track with M45 Quadmount (Maxson) Anti-Aircraft guns installed on it. Back of the half-track has "660 AAA" stenciled on it. Many Jerry cans are held in racks along the sides of the half-track. Scene shifts to a formation of German prisoners of war with their hands over their heads. Close-up views of faces of German soldier prisoners of war. Camera pans across them, closeup. They carry all their personal gear, including bed rolls, but no weapons. View from behind them. Wider glimpse of the prisoners under guard. The severely damaged 1928 Kroch Building (Krochhochhaus) is seen in the background. Several German prisoners sit in a jeep, guarded by an American soldier with an M3 .45-caliber sub-machine gun ("grease gun"). At the end of the film, the bomb damaged 1905 New City Hall (Neues Rathaus) is seen in the background.
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