A MIS-X officer representing the Prisoners of War Branch interviews American soldiers who escaped from and were then rescued from Japan's 10-A camp in Palawan, Philippines. Private first class Edwin A Petry describes the murder of American soldiers by forcing them to enter a bomb shelter, pouring gasoline, setting the gasoline alight and shooting the men who tried to escape. With the help of a map he also describes how he along with a companion managed to escape from the prison camp by crashing through the barbed wire and swimming across the bay. They were later evacuated to Morotai by 13th Army Air Force Catalina.
San Quentin State Prison in California. A guard looking through binoculars from tower. Signboard of 'Department of Corrections' and civilians passing by. Guard opening the main gate and people moving in to see the paintings made by prisoners. People at the exhibition. Close of view of various paintings exhibited and people looking at the paintings.
Chinese propaganda film. U.S. prisoners of Korean war serve food as they stand around a table with bowls placed on it. Men eat their meal as they sit around the table. A man plays ping pong as others sit in the background. Possibly Pyongan Bukdo prison camp.
Japanese prison camp number 3 in northern Honshu, Japan after World War II. U.S. prisoners gathered around a tent for a religious service. A sign outside the tent reads ' Chapel'. A chaplain at the altar. Men on their knees as they offer prayers. Some of them read out from a holy book. The chaplain reads from a scripture. Men kneel down outside the tent. A soldier seated on a chair as another one whispers into his ears. Men with their heads bowed down. The priest speaks to the soldiers after the service.
German soldiers surrender in France during World War II around the time of the D-Day Normandy invasion. The equipment of soldiers in the foreground. The U.S. Armysoldiers on tanks move in the background. The soldiers seated and a few of them stand on a beach. U.S. soldiers and medics question wounded German prisoners. A landing craft underway. German soldiers surrender. One soldier comes out of a dugout. The prisoners are searched by American forces.
U.S. officials inspect the Hadamar Prison Camp or Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany after its liberation by the U.S. Army towards the end of World War II. Men dig graves to remove corpses for autopsy. U.S. officials question Nazi prison doctors, including Adolf Wahlmann with head nurse Karl Willig, about poisons used to kill the inmates.
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