BIG SWITCH, MUNSAN-NI AND PANMUNJOM, KOREA Part 1

Description

US medics help take returnees out of ambulance. Int of processing tent as men walk toward gate marked "Welcome, Gate of Freedom". Turks, in shorts, some with plain cotton tops, as they walk by in tent. (They removed all clothing given them by the Chinese.) Pan, Turks awaiting medical processing. Medics examine Sert Bekir. Soldier puts an AG tag on Bekir. The Turks having ice cream, coffee, and milk. CU, one of them relishing the ice cream. Copter comes in with sick repatriate. Joe I. Smith, Melbourne, Australia, is lifted from copter and taken to waiting ambulance. The Cpl types out an AB form for PC Bernard R. Holligan, USMC. Marine Cpl Gathen Kennedy at Desk, being interviewed. MS, Maj Gen Randolph Pate, CG, 1st Marine Div waits on bench with two of his returned leathernecks. Panmunjom - A colored soldier; suffering from shock, is helped off truck. Ambulances leave exchange site. Several ROKs loaded into ambulance. Wounded ROK on litter being taken from red ambulance and put into copter. Four Koreans in truck sing and wave. Men hop off truck. Most of them are British. CU, blankets and equipment thrown away by Red prisoners. Trucks with Red prisoners arrive at the exchange site. MSs, several Reds in trucks with their faces covered with their hands. The Red prisoners, mostly in rags, having thrown away the clothing given to them by the Americans, as they come off trucks. They are helped as they come off. Korean woman carries a prisoner on her back. Red prisoners, cheering as they arrive in trucks with signs criticizing the Rhee government. Another sign condemns Gen Boatner. Red prisoners are helped off trucks. The attendants shake hands with them as they are led to the processing tent. Red prisoners in trucks waving streamers. One truck banner: "Long Live The Korean People Democratic Republic".

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection