Activities of German prisoners of war at Camp Evelyn in Munising, Michigan during World War II. A bus parked on a road. A building in the background. A capitan stands beside the bus. The prisoners are wearing woolen hats and coats. They get in a bus. The buses leave a forest area. Snow on either side of the road. Trees in the foreground.
Operation Little Switch (first phase of Operation Big Switch) in which released U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force POW (Prisoners Of War) are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tachikawa, Tokyo as part of repatriation effort late in the Korean War. Medical staff carry a number of sick or injured US military personnel (former prisoners) on stretcher. The first one seen is A/2C Robert L. Weinbrandt of El Cajon, California, a B-29 "Super Fortress tail gunner captured after his plane was shot down the night of January 28-29, 1953. He is seen being transported with his luggage out of annex ward. Several views of the released, former POW including several taken on stretchers out of the ward, and others that walk out on foot, smiling. Soldiers grab packs of Lucky Strike cigarettes from a basket. A car parked in the background. Officers and nurses in the hospital. General Shambora shakes hands with a released U.S. Army soldier.
Operation Little Switch repatriation effort (first phase of Operation Big Switch), in which released prisoners of war (POW) from the Korean War are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Japan, and then to the U.S. Cars carrying released sick and injured prisoners in litters drive towards U.S. Air Force Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter parked at Haneda Army Airbase at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. Ambulance car backs up towards the aircraft. The U.S. soldiers in stretchers are taken aboard C-97 aircraft by U.S. military medical staff. Men stand in the background and under a wing of the aircraft. An Army General stands by.
U.S. Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker and U.S. Army General John Joseph Pershing arrive at SOS Headquarters in Tours, France during World War I. People crowd in streets. Newton Diehl Baker and John Joseph Pershing get off from a car. Baker and Pershing are escorted by officers. They talk to the officers in front of a building. Jeeps being parked in the background. Baker, Pershing stand with other officers on the steps of the building and pose. German prisoners stand in formation. Baker and U.S. Army General James Guthrie Harbord inspect German prisoners. Buildings in the background. Harbord and Baker leave after the inspection. The soldiers stand in a group. An officer in a jeep reads from a paper. A close up of a dignitary. The officers stand in a group. Two officers pose.
Jewish prisoners are returned to Israeli authorities in Palestine during 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Arabs standing at a sandbagged position. Men at artillery guns. Israeli officers and soldiers arrive. Jewish prisoners arrive. The Red Cross supervises the humanitarian transfer.
U.S. soldiers in Unter-Diessen, Germany during World War II. Members of the 1st Battalion, 506th Parachute Regiment in a chow line on a field. Prisoners are also being fed at the same time. German prisoners eat. Two soldiers smoke. A released Russian captain speaks to U.S. soldiers.
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