As examples of action expected under provisions of the Third Geneva Convention, opening scenes show Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) escorting some Viet Cong prisoners of war (POW); a wounded being carried on a stretcher; refugees moving along a trail en masse and women and children being helped to board a DC-3 transport airplane. As examples of prohibited behavior: soldiers are seen abusing prisoners; a woman strikes someone surrounded by a vigilante group; a soldier threatens a child; mother and child being threatened. A Cuban revolutionary officer is seen passing sentence on prisoner without due process. A prisoner being executed by a firing squad. (Vietnam War period).
Operation Little Switch in which released POW are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tachikawa, Tokyo, and then on to the United States during repatriation of former prisoners late in the Korean War. The released POW (Prisoners Of War) eating food that will probably be the last meal there before leaving Korea. Food items kept in a shelf and on a table. A cook severs food in bowls to U.S. soldiers. Injured or former POW seated on a bed eating a bite of chicken 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. A wounded POW drinks soup and eats food kept on his bed. Liberated former prisoners drinking. Another former prisoner eating food. (Alarger Operation Big Switch followed in August.)
German prisoners aboard USS Wakefield in the Atlantic Ocean during World War 2. A Coast Guard enlisted man in foul-weather gear and a white hat shows two POWs ( Prisoners of War ) how to make an eye splice at the end of a rope. Young German prisoner of war works on his eye splice technique as the Coast Guard sailor teaches him. Several POWs , some older and some younger, look as a Coast Guard man shows them how to splice rope. Several prisoners leaning against the railing of the ship. German officers including army, navy, and Luftwaffe officers walk on the deck.
U.S. Army troops disembark from USS Wakefield in the United States during World War II. The troops disembark with their luggage. Officers plan for the designs of the ship. The troops board the ship. German prisoners of war (POWs) stand near the railings on the deck. The German prisoners stand near a mess table and eat food. German prisoners wearing uniforms with iron cross and Luftwaffe insignia. The prisoners standing on the deck look towards an airship while it is in flight. The ship underway at sea. USS Wakefield arrives at a port in the United States. The troops disembark from the ship.
Operation "Rutter,"(aka Operation Jubilee) the ill-fated Allied raid on Dieppe, France, conducted by the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division and British Commandos plus some Inter-allied commandos, during World War 2. Map highlighting Dieppe. Low-flying British Royal Air Force Spitfire aircraft attacking German positions. German gunners firing heavy field gun from a grove of trees. Batteries of German antiaircraft guns firing from positions in hillsides. Explosions close to the camera. Fortified German gunners firing quad 2 cm Flakvierling 38 antiaircraft gun. A German 8.8 cm Flak 18 antiaircraft gun in operation. Explosions on the beachhead. German soldiers at roadside, one with a hand grenade. Another huge explosion near the camera. View from inside fortified German position, as soldier fires MG42 machine gun. View through window of building as bomb or shell explodes close by. View of Allied beachhead in disarray as Allied raiders are taken prisoners of war. Several are ambulatory wounded and another is carried on a stretcher. A German Junkers Ju 88 bomber overhead, bombs an allied ship at the waterfront. Wounded Allied soldiers lying on the beach with knocked out Churchill tank and a burning landing craft behind them. Abandoned landing craft on the beach. A larger ship afire. Allied soldiers being gathered up by German soldiers. One gives a drink to an Allied soldier in a landing craft. Remnants of Allied forces being escorted as prisoners of war along a road with seaside Church of Notre-dame-de-bon-secours in the background. Some prisoners are barefoot. One is carried on a litter. Burning landing craft on the beach. Canadian soldiers march with hands raised. Views of damage to buildings in Dieppe, from bombing and shelling. Canadian prisoners of war being escorted by German guards through town. View from high point overlooking Dieppe, showing the town, with smoke rising in places, and the beach with Allied boats and equipment strewn on it.
Hanging of a German war criminal in Bruchal, Germany following World War 2. The prisoner was one of 3 German civilians found guilty by a U.S. 7th Army court in Bruchal of killing two unarmed U.S. Army prisoners of war. Condemned prisoner approaches scaffold guarded by American MPs (Military Police). Prisoner walks and climbs up ladder of scaffold. Hood is placed over condemned man's head, rope is placed over hood and body is dropped through trap. Body is removed from beneath the scaffold and placed in a coffin. Two Russian officers who were observers, speak to an American correspondent.
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