Surrender of the 512th Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion (Schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 512) at Iserlohn, Germany. German tank soldiers stand in formation. Tank Commander Lieutenant Hauptmann Albert Ernst (a Knight's Cross holder) surrenders to an officer of the U.S. Army 99th Infantry Division. German soldier surrendering a Panzerfaust anti-tank weapon. Convoy of trucks loaded with German prisoners. German prisoners of war load into the trucks under supervision of U.S. soldiers. The 512th was equipped with Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf. B Jagdtiger (Sd. Kfz. 186) Tank Destroyers. (World War II period).
Large ambulance trucks arrive at Camp Munsan-Ni in Korea during Operaton Little Switch, the first phase of Operation Big Switch prisoner repatriation efforts. United States Marine rides along the side of a running board of a truck and guides the driver to the parking area. Prisoners get out of the ambulance trucks. British flag and large tents in the background. Activities of the troops. Trucks and tents in the entire camp area.
Group of senior officers at Camp Munsan-Ni in Korea. A sign on a tent reads 'Welcome gate to freedom'. Korean, British and United States officers. A British officer, U.S. Army officer and U.S. Marine officer in discussion. U.S. flag on the left side and UN flag on the right side of the tent. Two Marine officers assist a wounded, liberated prisoner of war on a stretcher. Liberated soldiers who were prisoners of war get out of ambulance truck. (This is during Operation Little Switch, the first phase of a reciprocal repatriation effort that was followed by Operation Big Switch in August 1953.)
Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (Alias: Emil Robert Goldfus, Alias: Rudolph Abel) arrives in Atlanta, where he will serve his prison sentence in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. He steps down from an Eastern Airlines aircraft, accompanied by his attorney, James B. Donovan, and law enforcement officials.One or two reporters attempt to inverview him. Handcuffed and wearing his trademark fedora hat with white hatband, the prisoner is escorted across the tarmac in the dark.
View from the surfaced German U-Boat, UB-35, on a scenic cruise along the British coast in World War 1. The U-Boat crew uses explosives to sink a ship, close to shore (after releasing the ship's crew). The ship was loaded with salt herring for transport to Genoa, Italy. Repeated explosions are seen. In change of scene, five prisoners of war (British ship captains) take a morning walk on the deck of the UB-35 behind a screen of tarpaulin stretched across the deck. A slate referring to the difficulties experienced by Britain from German U-Boats. The U-35 Captain, Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, is seen sitting in his conning tower. Other officers are keeping watch. He receives a message from a sailor below. He writes a note to Headquarters reporting on ships and tonnage sunk by the U-35, and mentioning 5 English ship's captains taken prisoner, in the month of May, 1917. He signs it: "U-35, Arnauld." Closeup of the note. The U-35 proceeds to rendezvous with the Austro-Hungarian Novara-class scout cruiser, "Helgoland." View of the 4-stacker Helgoland with black smoke issuing from her stacks. View from the U-35 as it passes to port of the Helgoland. Captain von Arnauld and another officer, greet an Austro-Hungarian navy officer who comes aboard bringing greetings and wishes for good luck from his Admiral, to the U-35. View of the Admiral's flagship,the Austro-Hungarian Armored Cruiser, S.M.S. Sankt Georg. (Slate reads three cheers for the returning U-Boat, so presumably the Sankt Georg crew gives cheers.) Camera pans across the cruiser to deck of the U-35, where officers and men of the U-35 salute and raise their hats in three cheers for their Austrian-Hungarian comrades. Flags fly from the U-35, one for each Allied ship sunk. The U-35 with crew on deck moves slowly into port next to another submarine and large ship. U-Boat Captain von Arnauld walks to a fleet message center. The U-35 crew happily receive and read letters from home. The next scene shows the U-35 heading out to sea again,
Camel caravan passes wagons mired in water. Turkish troops surrendering to British soldiers.The Turks are excorted past British soldiers manning an 18 pounder field artillery piece. The prisoners of war join a large group of other POWs held in an outdoor containment. Closeup of British General Edmund Allenby, Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF), who led forces that seized Jerusalem from the Ottomans. The British Forces marching into Jerusalem, led by a Bagpipe Band. British soldiers escorting Ottoman prisoners. A British gunboat firing while anchored on the Tigris River. British soldiers marching up ma mountainside and building a tall, somewhat pyramidal, observation post, made of sand bags. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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