Reel

Big Switch: Prisoner Of War Exchange Speeded

Big Switch: Prisoner Of War Exchange Speeded
Clip: 352782_1_1
Year Shot: 1953 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1589
Original Film: 026-490-01
HD: N/A
Location: Korea
Timecode: 00:21:53 - 00:25:22

Same as catalog # 515016 'Operation Big Switch' continues smoothly, with contingents of prisoners arriving from each side for the exchange. A dramatic contrast is visible between healthy, well-fed, and still arrogant reds, and returning GI'S -underfed, bone-weary-and after critically ill-living testimony to communist brutality. MLS - Army trucks queue bringing back POW'S from North Korea. MCUS - POW'S getting off the trucks. CUS - North Korean Reds. stripping off their American provided clothes. I guess they had it too good. CUS - Americans taken off the trucks on stretchers, some look not too healthy. MCUS - Helicopters air lifting the wounded to hospitals. CUS - North Koreans in army trucks waving toilet paper, looking clean, healthy and rested in contrast with the Americans who were not taken care of a tortured and released sick. MCUS - Red officers greeting the Koreans who stripped off their clothes in defiance, the disregarded clothes are kicked into the gutter. CUS - General Maxwell Taylor commander of the 8th army greeting the released POW'S. CUS - Secretary of State - John Foster Dulles. CUS - Corporal Cox Right. CUS - John Dulles and Corporal Sherman Raymond. CUS - Injured GI smiling and waving at the camera.