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Allied prisoners shares his experiences after being released from the Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines.

United States prisoners and British prisoners after being released from a Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II. 511 Allied prisoners after being liberated from the Japanese prison camp. Soldiers get off a truck. Liberated soldiers share their experiences of the life at Japanese prison camps. British Sergeant Robert Fell speaks and says that he was taken prisoner in Singapore. He says that a number of prisoners lost their lives due to diphtheria, cholera and other diseases. He was taken to Thailand and brought back to Singapore from where the prisoners went aboard a Japanese ship. Majority of the prisoners lost their lives after the Japanese ship was sunk due to American air attack near Luzon. Then he was taken to the Cabanatuan prison camp. Another liberated prisoner Sergeant Samuel Goldy expresses gladness on being released by the Americans after 3 years of imprisonment.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059190
Film 'Wonders of the World' shows traffic policeman on road and worker collecting rubber from trees in Singapore.

Film 'Wonders of the World' shows natives rowing boats in Singapore. Number of boats docked at harbor. Bus, cars and bicycles on street. Traffic police man gives hand signals. Worker cuts tree bark for rubber which is collected in a small container.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043495
British Lieutenant General Percival, Japanese General Yamashita and other officers sign surrender documents in Singapore.

Surrender of British-led forces on February 15,1942 in Singapore during World War II. British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival led by a Japanese officer, marches with a flag of truce to the Old Ford Motor Factory in Bukit Timah to negotiate the surrender. Sign on a building 'Ford'. Interior: British General Percival seated at table with another officer. Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita comes out from his car and enters into a building. British General Percival, Japanese General Yamashita and other officers sign surrender documents. Ruins and smoke rising. Barbed wire perimeter. Japanese flag seen. Japanese celebrate their victory.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675071244
Natives around their residential apartments and women shop at a market place in Singapore.

Buildings and a market in Singapore after the war ( World War II). Cars parked in front of the buildings. Traffic on a road. Boats anchored at a dock. Damaged buildings due to the war. Clothes hanged out side houses in an apartment building. Children sit and eat. People eat. Women sit in cycle carts. Bananas in a shop. A man paints a tin container. Women buy clothes. Women check out shoes, flasks, hand bags, watches and clothes. Clothes displayed on dummies.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068276
People gather on the streets after Japanese attack on Singapore.

Damage due to Japanese attack on Singapore during World War II. An aerial view of the city. Wrecked equipment and vehicle in the city due to the bombarding. Rubbled houses and buildings. People and soldiers gather on the streets. They throw water on the burning houses and buildings with the help of hoses.

Date: 1942
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061821
Civilian people arrive at a harbor and embark a ship to evacuate the place due to Japanese attack on Singapore.

Japanese attack on Singapore during World War II. British civilians gather at a harbor. British soldiers and sailors stand near a ship and help the people, mostly British women and children, arriving at the harbor. Evacuating the war zone, civilians board the ship and wave toward shore as ship departs.

Date: 1942
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061823