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U.S. Colonel Kirkpatrick awards Purple Hearts to a group of injured former POW late in Korean War.

Operation Little Switch effort underway for repatriation of former prisoners of war near end of the Korean War. Released POW (Prisoners Of War) had been taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tokyo, Japan. A number of injured former POW U.S. Army soldiers are seen receiving Purple Heart awards from U.S. Army Colonel Kirkpatrick. Several views of Colonel awarding Purple Hearts to six soldiers, including two African American soldiers. The medals pinned on the robes of the hospital patients.

Date: 1953, April 28
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069617
U.S. Army Medical Service in Korea. Evacuation of wounded to Japan for treatment during the Korean War

Medical aid being provided to U.S. soldiers during the Korean War. Helicopters with special containers on their sides to be used for evacuation. An injured soldier being carried in a container on the side of the helicopter. The helicopter takes off. An injured soldier being brought to a medical station aboard a light liaison airplane. Men carry soldier on stretcher into an evacuation airplane. Cover over ramp into aircraft reads'374th troop carrier wing, Hospital Evacuation'. The aircraft will evacuate the wounded to Japan. In Japan, Japanese civilians are seen carrying wounded U.S. soldiers from a C-47 aircraft ,on a stretcher into an ambulance. View of ambulance interior,shows tiers of litters. Ambulance arrives at Tokyo Army Hospital. View of the hospital building. The wounded soldiers being carried into the hospital for treatment.

Date: 1953
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032204
U.S Army Medical Service in Korea. Injured U.S. soldiers evacuated to the United States during the Korean War.

Scenes inside U.S. Army hospital in Japan. Surgeons scrub. Patients are moved about and treated. Nurse tending bedridden patient. Several soldiers seen leaving to return to duty in Korea. Others are transported to Haneda Air Base, near Tokyo, where the Military Air Transport Command operates long range aircraft in the so-called "Pacific Air Shuttle." A wounded soldier is taken from an ambulance and placed aboard a transport aircraft. Interior of aircraft is shown, with litters. The aircraft lands at Hawaii where wounded are cared for at Tripler Army Hospital until ready to continue journey to Travis Air Force Base in California. View from cockpit of aircraft landing at Travis Air Force Base. Wounded patients being moved through rear cargo doors of C-97 aircraft. View of Walter Reed U.S. Army General Hospital in Washington, DC. Captain Zimmerman introduces Lt. Col. S.J. Newsome, who was a surgeon in Korea with the 7th Division. Dr. Newsome emphasizes "speed" as the most important factor in recovery of wounded soldiers. He also mentions the problem of disease affecting soldiers in foreign places like Korea. Scenes of Army doctors examining soldier patients. Wounded being placed aboard jeep in Korea. Soldier firing rifle. Soldiers slogging through mud and water. Soldiers firing artillery in the snow, and evacuating wounded on inflated litter in snow. Combat in jungle. View of people at river in India. Civilian dead in streets.

Date: 1953
Duration: 6 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032205
Cars carrying litter patients drive towards C-97 Stratofreighter and released Korean War prisoners are taken aboard

Operation Little Switch repatriation effort, in which released prisoners of war (POW) from the Korean War are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Japan, and then to the U.S. Cars carrying released sick and injured prisoners in litters drive towards U.S. Air Force Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter parked at Haneda Army Airbase at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. Ambulance car backs up towards the aircraft. The U.S. soldiers in stretchers are taken aboard C-97 aircraft by U.S. military medical staff. Men stand in the background and under a wing of the aircraft. An Army General stands by.

Date: 1953, April 28
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069614
Various jobs in the United States Navy are shown, including mechanic, pilot, administrative staff, medical staff, and sailor.

Recruitment advertisement for the United States Navy within the U.S. military. Teenage boy exits diner and sweeps stoop of diner with broom. Aerial view of Grumman F9 Cougar jet aircraft flying in formation. Mechanics on aircraft carrier examine Grumman F9 jet. Sailors in Japan at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. Sailor typing message on typewriter while wearing headphones. Flight director in aircraft carrier guiding Grumman F9 aircraft. Nurse and doctor confer with patient in bed in hospital. Sailor operates signal light. Grumman F9 Panther jets taking off from aircraft carrier. Narrator urges viewer to "see your Navy recruiter today."

Date: 1953
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071362
Scenes from Tokyo Japan: A railroad station and the airport in Tokyo.

A Spanish language Japanese propaganda film before World War II aimed at audiences in Latin America and South America. Exteriors of modern homes and buildings in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese people dining al fresco at a café. Coffee is poured into a cup. Men and women enjoying coffee inside a café in Tokyo. View of Tokyo Station (1 Chome Marunouchi, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan). Passengers at Tokyo Station waiting for trains to arrive. Clock on the train station platform is seen. Woman waving at a train departing the station. Building at Tokyo Haneda International Airport (Hanedakuko, Ota City, Tokyo 144-0041, Japan). Airline passengers boarding a Japan Air Transport plane on tarmac at Tokyo Haneda International Airport. Plane in flight above sea and Mount Fuji in background.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675024822