Allied soldiers cheer to celebrate the occasion of World War II coming to an end, around the time of VJ Day (Victory over Japan) at the end of World War 2. Allied prisoners liberated from Japanese prison camps are seen arriving by railroad train at stations for transfer to nearby ships. The former POW soldiers greet and embrace one another. A uniformed soldier kisses a woman soldier in uniform. They move in trucks celebrating Allied victory in war. Cheering soldiers hold up an American flag at the front of the truck filled with liberated prisoners. A boat carries some liberated soldiers toward the United States hospital ship USS Benevolence (AH-13), as a former Japanese guards watches from shore, and U.S soldiers look on. Flags of Allied nations are seen, superimposed on images of saluting soldiers, as soundtrack in background plays audio of part of speech by General MacArthur aboard the USS Missouri during the Japanese surrender ceremony.
More than 200 political prisoners burnt alive whereas some shot dead or electrocuted as they ran to welcome American troops at Leipzig concentration camp in Germany. The camp comprised of mainly Russian, Czech and Polish prisoners. Dead prisoners near the barbed wires. Russian slave women look at them from across barbed wire fence. (World War II period).
The Germans surrender in Milan, Italy during World War II. German prisoners loaded on a truck as they move past civilians. The prisoners smoke cigarettes. A German female prisoner peers from behind the curtains of a bus. Trucks move past the Italian civilians after the surrender of SS ( Schutzstaffel) troops. German officers in a car as they move past a large crowd. People milling about in the streets.
Japanese prison camp number 3 in northern Honshu, Japan after World War II. A U.S. medical officer being interviewed at the prison camp as other prisoners look on. Buildings at the camp. A walled gate at the camp as two U.S. officers walk away from it. A Japanese sign on the gate. Wooden logs piled up.
German submarine U-234 following its surrencder and capture by the U.S. Forces in Portsmouth, New Hampshire following Germany's surrender in World War 2. The submarine crew members carry their gear onto a dock. German prisoners stand on the dock while American sailors guard them with rifles. A naval gun aboard a vessel. The crew members exit a U.S. Coast Guard cutter via a gangway. They walk along the dock at Portsmouth. German prisoners walk along the dock. The prisoners carry their gear as they come onto the dock.
United States Marines in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Aerial views of the town of Saipan. Wrecked equipment and damaged structures. A damaged building. Debris spread in an area. Marines in a devastated village. A Marine aims his rifle. A Japanese prisoner with his hands up. Japanese prisoners smoke cigarettes. Japanese prisoners and civilians put onto trucks.
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