Allied Invasion of Southern France during Operation Dragoon of World War II on 29 August 1944. Civilians cheer the arrival of the French troops in Laragne. Allied soldiers enter Grenoble. Aerial view of city. Prisoners of war seated. Czech,Polish and Russian prisoners walk through streets. American troops pass through streets. French FFI round up Nazi sympathizers. 2nd Battalion of the 7th Infantry Regiment 3rd Division fights with Germans and take many prisoners, seen marching through streets of town.
U.S. soldiers guard prisoners in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Marine truck convoy is damaged by a Vietcong ambush. U.S. soldiers holding rifles walk across a river. A soldier keeps guard on a group of prisoners sitting in a field. Women are marched across the field by the soldiers. A soldier talks over a telephone. Wounded prisoners get into a UH-1 Huey helicopter.
Arnstadt Concentration Camp in Germany captured by American forces in April, 1945 near the end of World War II. Prisoners were mainly Poles and Russians. View from the camp gate to tents which were used to house prisoners. Dogs were used to guard the prisoners. Shown is A dog kennel for a watch dog. Local German citizens had exhumed he bodies of concentration camp victims from their original mass grave, and reburied them in a trench further away from the town because of the stench. Now they were disinterring them again under supervision of United States Army soldiers. A corpse with crushed head. Corpses lying outside the graves from which they have just been exhumed. Bodies laid out on the ground are viewed by several U.S. soldiers
U.S. 20th Helicopter Squadron, Special Forces personnel and Montagnard troops aboard U.S. Army UH-1F Iroquois helicopters en route to a remote village in Vietnam to pick up a suspected Vietcong prisoner during the Vietnam War. Troops leave a UH-1F helicopter as it lands. They run into a jungle. The UH-1F helicopter takes off. The UH-1F unloading troops. Special Forces personnel and Montagnard troops enter the village and bring the prisoner from a hut to the UH-1F. More troops leave the UH-1F. The UH-1F takes off. Aerial view of the village. UH-1Fs land on the field and troops leave a helicopter. Suspected Vietcong prisoner is marched by a Special Forces personnel. UH-1Fs take off.
Battle between American and German troops on the Western Front during World War II. German SS General Sepp Dietrich confers with officers at the front line. German troops on bicycles are given newspapers which point to Eisenhower campaign. Sign in German, "feindeinsicht wirble keinen staub auf sonst kriegst du eins aufs dach draue" warns of keeping dust down to avoid detection by enemy. Soldiers marching on the battlefield. German troops move through woods, fire rocket launchers, flame throwers and hand grenades during an attack on American tanks after signal from officer firing signal flare. German soldier camouflages helmet with a fern branch. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment on the battlefield. American tanks passing through an opening in a wooded sector. German troops engage in a battle and knock out several American Sherman tanks firing Panzerschreck and deploying a Goliath tracked mine, or beetle tank (or German robot tank). U.S. prisoners of war are taken by the Germans. View of captured U.S. prisoners. Some prisoners cover their faces.
U.S. Army Major Achille C. Tisdell testifies before a military tribunal in Manila, Phillipines during the trial of Japanese Army General Masaharu Homma for World War II crimes. Major Tisdell, aide-de-camp to Commanding General of the American forces in Luzon Major General Edward King, speaks about the Americans being taken to various prison camps. He says that Major General Edward King and General Jones were taken to Camp O'Donnell. He says that other officers including him were taken to a warehouse near San Fernando and from their they were taken to U.S. head quarters. Major Tisdell recalls that leaflets were dropped for the prisoners. He hands over a leaflet to a member of the tribunal. Tisdell reads out the part of the leaflet related to treatment of prisoners of war.
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