Overseeing enemy prisoners of war

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Japanese POWs sitting on a beach surrounded by US servicemen
Photograph. A large group of Japanese POWs sitting on a beach surrounded by United States Army and Navy personnel. A...
Japanese prisoners helping repair war damaged Manila, Philippines, 1945
Photograph. Japanese prisoners of war being marched by American military police down a commercial street in Manila;...
Japanese prisoners of war arriving in San Francisco, California, 1945
Photograph. Japanese prisoners of war carrying their personal belongings down a gangway from the transport that brought...
Japanese prisoners of war being evacuated from Iwo Jima Island, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese prisoners of war being evacuated from Iwo Jima. Official Caption: "Rome 8/2/45. JAPANESE PRISONERS...
Japanese prisoners of war being inspected by U.S. Marines, Guam, 1944
Photograph. Japanese prisoners of war being inspected by U.S. Marine. Official Caption: "Rome 8/2/45. JAPANESE...
Japanese prisoners of war being transported on a landing craft on Iwo Jima in February 1945
View down onto landing craft manned by Coast Guardsmen, Japanese prisoners of war huddled along side of boat. Official...
Japanese prisoners of war lining up for roll call, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. A single U.S. Army serviceman taking roll of a large group of Japanese prisoners. Official Caption: "Rome....
Japanese prisoners of war unloading supplies from a B-29 Superfortress on Okinawa in 1945
Japanese prisoners of war unloading supplies from a B-29 Superfortress. "Okinawa." Okinawa. 1945
Japanese prisoners of war unloading supplies from a B-29 Superfortress on Okinawa in 1945
Japanese prisoners of war unloading supplies from a B-29 Superfortress. "Japs unloading plane on Okinawa." Okinawa....
Japanese prisoners sit inside a landing craft on a Pacific island, 1942-1945
American soldiers detain Japanese prisoners, some who are naked, on a landing craft near shore. Two of the Japanese men...
Japanese soldier surrendering to US Marines, Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
Photograph. Japanese soldier clothed in only undergarments surrendering to armed United States Marines in front of a...
Julius Streicher with military escort after capture near Berchtesgaden, Germany, May 1945
Photograph. Julius Streicher, captured former editor of the Nazi paper 'Der Stürmer', walking with U.S. Major Henry G....
Large group of German prisoners of war waiting for transport, Germany, 1945
Photograph. Large group of German prisoners of war gathered along roadway awaiting transport. Personal caption on photo...
Lt. Clarence E. Coggins drives a jeep, Grenoble, France, 1944
Photograph. Lt. Clarence E. Coggins drives a jeep. Official caption on front: "7/MM-44-2466." Official caption on...
Marines escorting Japanese prisoners of war in the Mariana Islands during World War II
Photograph. United States Marines escorting Japanese prisoners of war down beach towards a DUKW; several naval vessels...
Nazi war criminal Peter Back standing on the gallows at Rheinbach, Germany, July 1945
Photograph. Peter Back, German war criminal convicted of the murder of an unidentified U.S. airman, standing on the...
Pietro Koch, Nazi collaborator, being tied to a chair before his execution near Rome, Italy, 5 June 1945
Photograph. Pietro Koch, Nazi collaborator, being tied to a chair with his back to a U.S. firing squad as a priest...
Pietro Koch, Nazi collaborator, moments before his execution near Rome, Italy, June 1945
Photograph. Men (reporters, photographers, and others) gathered around Pietro Koch, Nazi collaborator, moments before...
Pietro Koch, Nazi collaborator, receiving last rites before his execution near Rome, Italy, June 1945
Photograph. Pietro Koch, Nazi collaborator, receiving last rites before his execution. Official Caption: "The convicted...
Prisoners from the Goering Division are led to a P.O.W. camp, Italy, 1944
Photograph. Prisoners from the Goering Division are led to a P.O.W. camp. Official caption on front: "MM-5-152361."...
Released prisoners of war rolling barrels of fuel onto sandy beach near Lutong, Borneo, June 1945
Photograph. Armed Australian soldier watching over released prisoners of war rolling barrels of fuel onto sandy beach....
Seven German prisoners are guarded by a French soldier, Italy, 1944
Photograph. Seven German prisoners are guarded by a French soldier. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-4871." Official...
Several Japanese prisoners of war in the Mariana Islands during World War II
Photograph. United States Marine talking to a group of Japanese prisoners of war in a corral made of barbed wire....
Sgt. Edwin Henson checks identification tags of German prisoners captured in the Carroceto Area, Italy, 1944
Photograph. Sgt. Edwin Henson checks identification tags of captured German prisoners. Official caption on front: "MM-5...
Thousands of German prisoners of war
Large field of German prisoners of war. "ETO-HQ-45-22501. Weintraub. 23 Mar. Signal corps photo. Part of 11,000 German...
U.S. Marine escorting Japanese prisoner, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Rear view of U.S. Marine escorting Japanese prisoner of war. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/2/45--U.S. Marine...
U.S. PT boat crewmen with a German prisoner of war in probably Normandy, France, circa 1944
U.S. PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat crewmen posing for picture on deck with German prisoner of war (POW); one crewman...
Uniformed German officer stands outside on a dirt road, ETO
Photograph. Uniformed German officer stands outside on a dirt road. ETO. No date
US and Filipino soldiers overseeing Japanese POWs, Bulacan, 1945
Photograph. United States Army and Filipino soldiers overseeing three Japanese prisoners of war at Ipo Dam. Official...
US Army Lt. Gen. George Patton examining Italian prisoners of war in Gela, Sicily, 1943
Photograph. United States Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton looking down from a balcony at Italian prisoners of...
US Army soldiers leading Italian POWs out of Palermo, Sicily, 1943
Photograph. Two United States Army soldiers leading surrendered Italian prisoners of war down a paved street. Official...
US Marine guarding crowd of Okinawaese POWs, Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. Armed United States Marine military policeman guarding a crowd of surrendered Japanese soldiers standing in...
US Marines transporting Japanese POWs off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese prisoners of war being transported by United States Marines in an American landing craft. Official...
US officer questions a German prisoner, Italy, 1944
Photograph. US officer questions a German prisoner. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-10079." Official caption on...
US soldier captures two German soldiers, Italy, 1944
Photograph. US soldier captures two German soldiers. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-3643." Official caption on...
US soldiers capture German soldiers in Cisterna, Italy, 1944
Photograph. US soldiers keep captured German soldiers at bay with their rifles. Official caption on front: "MM-5-44-...

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