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Dutch prisoners of war in Java. Of the total of about 40.000 prisoners of war in Japanese hands a good many live in P.O.W. camps in Java. Very little is known about conditions in these camps as no Red Cross representatives have been permitted by the Japanese to visit them. It is known that the prisoners keenly miss the absence of Red Cross parsels and regular mail from home. This photos believed to ...

German prisoners head for internment in England. A German prisoner shaves his comrade as another looks on aboard an American LST (landing ship-tank) vessel transporting the Germans from France across the Channel to England for internment at prisoner-of-war camps. The Germans were captured by American troops during the Battle of Normandy. Approximately one month after the start, on June 6, 1944, of ...

Allied prisoners liberated by first U.S. Army. Russian soldiers, held prisoner by the Nazis, stand close to the gate as First U.S. Army troops approach their camp to free them. Thousands of Allied prisoners, most of them forced to work in slave-labor battalions, were liberated in the drive of the First U.S. Army east of the Rhine.

' Single haul of nazi prisoners.' 'Approximately 1,500 Nazi prisoners taken by troops of the Sixth Armored Division, Third U.S. Army, fill an encampment near Friedberg, Germany, where they laid down their arms and refused to fight when American armor approached the town. Friedberg is 13 miles north of Frankfurt, Nazi industrial town seized March 29, 1945, by Third Army troops.U.S. Signal Corps Pho ...

Exchange of prisoners in France. Andrew C. Hodges, an American Red Cross representative, discusses the details of the exchange with a group of German officers as 19 American, 30 French and three British prisoners-of-war were returned to the American lines in exchange for 54 German prisoners-of-war. The mutual repatriation was effected near Pernic in the St. Nazaire sector of France.

U.S. troops liberate Nazi-held prisoners. The soldiers assembled in this huge Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in the ninth U.S. Army sector in Germany April 4, 1945, are part of an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 Russian, Polish and Ukranian prisoners liberated by advancing Ninth Army troops. The group is lined up for onspection by Captein Leon L. Smcavic of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, commanding ...

Nazi prisoners parade on famed autobahn. Nazi prisoners fill the center of the famed autobahn (super motor highway) near Giessen, Germany, March 29, 1945, as tanks and vehicles of the Sixth Armored Division, Third U.S. Army, speed forward. Giessen is 30 miles north of Frankfurt-on-Main.

Verenigde Staten. German prisoners of Western Front. In the six months following the landings in Normandy on Jun 6, 1944, armies of the Allied Expeditionary Force took 749,000 German prisoners on the Western Front. This drawing illustrates the number of enemy soldiers who gave up to the French Forces of the Interior and to each of the seven armies that are hammering toward victory over the forces of ...

First German prisoners from France arrive in England. Three Nazi prisoners, all with head wounds, arrive at a British port from the beachheads in Norhtern France, where they were captured during the first Allied landings. Hundreds of officers and men from Hitler's beach defenses were included in this first batch of German prisoners to reach England.

Liberated Prisoners of War bound for Australia. Aboard the aircraft en route to Australia, a group of liberated Australian Prisoners of War are given food and cigarettes as they leave for home. The planes took off from the civil airport at Kalang, in Singapore. NI 5934