Soldiers of Army of Republic of Vietnam captures Viet Cong members as Prisoners of War in Vietnam. Soldier holds a young boy by the collar as he weeps badly. Later he leaves the boy. Arrested prisoners are made to march across the field and are interrogated by the soldiers on the porch of a building. Prisoners are presented before a Senior Officer. (Vietnam War period).
From a sequence of interviews with freed former prisoners from the Los Baños prison camp in the Philippines during World War II. At the former Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa, a man interviews Reverend Leopold Damrosch (grandnephew of the famous composer and conductor Walter Damrosch) and Ned Davenport (son of famous movie actor Harry Davenport). The two men had not seen each other in 11 or 12 years. Davenport asks Damrosch about how he feels to be liberated and what he thinks of the U.S. Army personnel and equipment. Damrosch expresses delight at his liberation by the paratroopers from Los Baños and that it was great to be liberated by the U.S. forces. The two of them talk to each other over a mike and shake hands.
An ambulance pulls up at Los Baños prison in Luzon, Philippines. Rescued civilian Allied prisoners get down from the truck. Freed former prisoners stand in a line with pans and spoons in their hands. Many of them are very thin from meager food provisions received during incarceration. Soup being served to them from a trash can. (World War II period).
Allied prisoners after rescued by 11th Airborne Division in Luzon, Philippines. Prisoners line up and get their names checked. Malnourished children and a weak man among the prisoners. Nuns also get their names checked. (World War II period).
An American cameraman walks among the group of German prisoners. Cameraman speaks to a number of prisoners who served in Chancellor Hitler's labour battalion as forced labors. Cameraman notes down the details on a document. Prisoners talking to each other. (World War II period).
View of Alcatraz Island located in middle of San Francisco Bay in California which served as a Federal prison. View of empty cells from where prisoners are removed. Reporters and cameramen roam through the corridors and cell blocks of 'The Rock' or Alcatraz. Few prisoners left on Alcatraz are taken to boat for transferring them to other Federal penitentiaries.
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