U.S. Submarine, USS Pickerel (SS-177) docked in Pearl Harbor during World War 2. Crew members handling lines on deck. Navy ensign displayed on stern. Shipyard derrick in background. Sub's conning tower displays several miniature Japanese flags, representing victories. Boat's officers pose on deck. Other subs docked alongside in background. Sailors ride a motorized lift transporting a torpedo to the sub. Below decks, crewmen load torpedoes into firing tubes. The Pickerel starts moving out of her berth. Animated map shows pattern of U.S. submarine operations out of Pearl Harbor, fanning out toward Japan. Views of the submarine cruising on the surface. Binocular view of ships on horizon. Crew members clear the deck and go below. The submarine submerges. Crew working at duty stations. Captain at the periscope, orders firing of number 1 torpedo. It strikes a ship Which explodes and burns with billowing black smoke.
U.S. prisoners of war are freed in the Philippines during World War II. U.S. prisoners and Filipino civilians stand outside a building. They are liberated from a Japanese prison camp. Men talk amongst themselves. The liberated soldiers and the civilians cheer. The wounded and the sick men are carried from the camp on stretchers. Wheel carts outside the building. Men seated on the wheel carts. Hay stacks on other wheel carts. A medic talks to a soldier. A man eats a fruit.
U.S. prisoners of war are freed in the Philippines during World War II. Liberated men are being interviewed. U.S. Army chaplain Colonel Alfred C. Oliver Jr. is interviewed. He talks about the experience of being liberated from a Japanese prison camp after a long time. He speaks about the chapels destroyed by the Japanese. A thatched hut in the background.
Members of U.S. Army 315th Engineer Battalion in Birresborn, Germany during World War II. Men construct a pontoon bridge over the Kyll River. They dig out mud using different tools.
U.S. prisoners of war being escorted back to American lines, by Rangers of the U.S. Army 6th Battalion, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas, after being freed from the Japanese prison at Cabanatuan, Philippines, in a daring raid behind Japanese lines, during World War 2. The rescuers stand with the freed prisoners. Some released prisoners march along and some prisoners ride in carabao carts. Trees in the area. Thatched huts in the background. Local women and children watch the liberated prisoners.
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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