Prisoner of war experience

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American POWs arriving at Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila
Photograph. American servicemen and diplomats along with their families standing behind their luggage in a field....
American POWs waiting on a beach, Philippines
Photograph. United States servicemen waiting on a beach after being captured by Japanese forces. Official caption on...
American prisoners in a Japanese POW compound, Yokohama, 1945
Photograph, aerial. American prisoners standing in the middle of a Japanese prisoner of war compound and waving at a...
American prisoners of war cheering their rescuers, Yokohama, 1945
Photograph. American prisoners of war cheering on their rescuers. Official caption on front: "Gaunt prisoners cheer...
Captured German General Kessler reading American book, New Hampshire, May 1945
Photograph. Captured German General Ulrich Kessler reading the American book "After the War--What?" aboard a U.S....
Captured German trucks containing printing presses, radio equipment, and recording equipment, Italy, 1945
Photograph. Captured German trucks containing printing presses, radio equipment, and recording equipment parked in a...
Captured Nazi soldiers debarking an LCVP along the Rhine, Germany, 1945
Photograph. United States Army soldiers observing captured Nazi soldiers debark from a LCVP [Landing Craft, Vehicle,...
Community kitchen in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila
Photograph. American women and men working in the outdoor community kitchen in Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Official...
Deutsches Afrikakorps POWs, Sicily, 1943
Photograph. United States servicemen guarding Deutsches Afrikakorps [German Africa Corps] prisoners of war lined up...
Emaciated Allied prisoners of war preparing to leave their prison camp, 1945
Photograph. Emaciated Allied prisoners of war preparing to leave after the liberation of their prison camp. Official...
Emaciated American prisoner of war lying in bed, Aomori, 1945
Photograph. Military medic standing next to an extremely emaciated American prisoner of war who is lying in bed....
Female POW at teh graveyard in Bilibid Prison, Muntinlupa
Photograph. American, female prisoner of war standing among the graves of Americans who died in Bilibid Prison....
Female POWs washing their hair Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila, Philippines
Photograph. Three female, American prisoners of war washing their hair at an outdoor tub. Official caption on front: "...
Former US prisoners of war are freed, Italy, 1943
Photograph. Former US prisoners of war are freed. Official caption on front: "MM-CLA-43-8045." Official caption on...
German POW driver and Italian repatriates at a repatriation camp, Bolzano, Italy, 1945
Photograph. German POW driver and Italian repatriates at a repatriation camp after the war's end. Official Caption: "A...
German POWs being rounded up by the 7th Infantry Regiment, Salzburg, 1945
Photograph. Infantrymen of the 7th Infantry Regiment guarding a group of recently captured German prisoners of war; a...
German POWs debarking from LST-351, 1944
Photograph. German prisoners of war being escorted from USS LST-351 by American soldiers. Official caption on front: "...
German POWs marching down a hill near Auland, Austria, 2 May 1945
Photograph. Large line of captured German soldiers marching down a road on a hillside; snow covers the ground. Official...
German POWs marching through Munich, Germany, 1945
Photograph. Recently captured German prisoners of war marching down a street, a civilian [left] and American serviceman...
German POWs tearing down a German-built pillbox in St. Pazova, Yugoslavia (Serbia), 1945
Photograph. German POWs tearing down a German-built pillbox in a city street. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/21/45--Justice...
German POWs viewing footage of German war atrocities, New York City, July 1945
Photograph. German POWs, sitting in a movie theater in New York City, cover their faces while viewing footage of German...
German POWs with stolen French wagons and carts, Southern France, 1944
Photograph. Crowd of German prisoners of war standing amongst stolen French wagons and carts; armed French soldiers are...
German prisoner of war holding reigns of two captured German horses in Verona, Italy in 1944 or 1945
Slide. German prisoner of war holding reigns of two captured German horses. “Hans and Ger. cavalry horses, Verona.”...
German prisoners of war
Photograph. German prisoners of war standing between a wall and a wooden fence. Location unknown. No date
German prisoners of war
Photograph. German prisoners of war captured by Allied Forces walking on a dirt street. Location unknown. No date
German prisoners of war
Photograph. A group of German prisoners of war sit and stand on a hill next to a fence. A large barracks is in the...
German prisoners of war set type for their camp newspaper
Photograph. Official Caption: "German prisoners of war set type for their camp news papers."”Location unknown. 1945
German prisoners of war standing outside bakery in Naples, Italy in 1944 or 1945
Slide. German prisoners of war standing outside bakery. “Ger. P.O.W.s at company bakery.” From box originally labeled...
German soldiers in railroad train cars awaiting transportation in Germany in 1945
German soldiers in railroad train cars awaiting transportation in Germany in 1945. "German soldaten on way home after...
Germans POWs aboard an American transport ship, Normandy, 1944
Photograph. German prisoners of war standing behind a rope and looking out on the deck of an American transport ship...
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington after his liberation from Omori Prison Camp, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (left) shaking hands with an unidentified American military officer....
Hospital wing in Bilibid Prison, Muntinlupa
Photograph. American prisoners of war sitting on or standing by rows of beds. Official caption on front: "Bilibid...
Italian prisoners being loaded onto a US landing craft off the coast of Gela, Sicily, 1943
Photograph. Italian prisoners of war wading through water to board the USS LCI(L)-221. Official caption on front: "...
Italian prisoners being marched out of Palermo, Sicily, 1943
Photograph. United States troops marching Italian prisoners of war out of Palermo. Official caption on front: "Italian...
Italian translators transcribing a BBC broadcast into German, Italy, 1945
Photograph. Italian translators transcribing an English radio broadcast for German prisoners of war (POWs); they are...
Japanese POWs being transported in a LCVP, Kwajalein Atoll, 1944
Photograph. American military police overseeing half-naked Japanese prisoners of war on a LCVP [Landing Craft, Vehicle...

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