Film opens with slate reading: "Cabanatuan Prisoners' Hospitalization at Time of Repatriation." Brief view of a tent-like field hospital where former POWs were being treated, behind American lines, with rescued American POWs in beds and several Army nurses attending them. After that is an extended view of several ambulatory patients engaged in conversations at a hospital behind American lines. At TC:01:35, the scene reverts to earlier time, and a patient is seen lying in the ruins of the prison camp on the day of the rescue raid (Jan 30, 1945). He is being tended to by another soldier, with whom he converses. Two former prisoners are seen in a straw-lined cart prepared for transport back to the American lines, by water buffalo. The remainder of the film shows the former POWs and their rescuers leaving the Cabanatuan prison, on their way back to the American lines. Some non-ambulatory former prisoners are seen lying on straw- covered ground.
Three bank robbers escape from Alcatraz prison in California on June 11, 1962. Escape proof Alcatraz prison at Island. Drainage pipe opening into the sea. Sign reads 'Keep Out'. People outside the prison. Official seated at a table, while photographers click pictures. Warden with pictures of three prisoners; Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin. Dummies in beds of the prisoners. Drain pipes at the top of a cell block. Coast guard watch looks through binoculars as San Francisco bay is searched. A helicopter flies overhead during the search.
A large group of German prisoners in an Allied prison camp. German prisoners of war behind wire enclosure. Wounded German POWs lined up. Dejected prisoners. A prisoner hides his face.
A captured Wehrmacht Major General gets into a jeep after German defeat from the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. A German Volkssturm militia man with an armband. Armband reads “Deusches Volkssturm Wehrmacht”. Volkssturm militia carry discarded Schmeisser guns to defend a town in the Ruhr Valley. A Volkssturm militia man surrenders to an American soldier. Surrendered Volkssturm men shows a place to an American soldier, where arms have been hidden. American soldier being led to a riverbank of the Rhine River where the German Volkssturm men show him flame throwers. The mass escape of prisoners from a German concentration camp. Polish, Czech, Yugoslavian, and Soviet prisoners of war find United States soldiers in the forest after their escape from a German prison camp. An Asian man, likely Soviet, after escaping a German concentration camp. Food and medical aid being provided to them by the Americans. Women being released from a camp by the Americans. Russian prisoners appear happy after being released from German prisons.
American prisoners of war at a Japanese prison camp in northern Honshu, Japan after World War II. Buildings at the prison camp. A smoking chimney. A sign on the roof of the building reads ' PW'. U.S. prisoners brush their teeth at the camp. A prisoner shaves his beard.
U.S. prisoners of war, rescued by U.S. Army Rangers of the 6th Battalion, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas, from Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan, Philippines, during World War II. The rescued prisoners arrive at the 92nd Evacuation Hospital, at Guimba, Nueva Ecija, in ambulances and trucks. Soldiers and former prisoners gather outside the hospital buildings. Some of the freed prisoners rest on the ground outside the hospital buildings. The main building displays a sign reading: "Guimba East Central School, Academic Building No.2."
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