Korean War - 1953: Operation Big Switch POW Exchange, ca 02-05Sep53

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Korean War - 1953: Operation Big Switch POW Exchange, ca 02-05Sep53 Flash slate: 05Sep53 Camera: Armstrong. Operation Big Switch. LS USA Army truck convoy loaded w/ prisoners parked, armed guard alongside. CU sign: Freedom Bridge. 12:47:01 Passing trucks & communist POWs waving hands, yelling. 12:47:12 CU Colonel ARTHUR O. SWISHER. CU POW train going by, streamers on side of train. MS 12:47:51 Slate: illegible. Communist POWs off train. HA MLS North Korean POWs loading into back of US Army truck. HA MLS Two truck loads of North Korean Communist POWs. MS Trucks loaded w/ Communist POWs go by; parked vehicles in BG. MS Convoy of Army trucks w/ POWs driving by; POWs are yelling, singing in unison & waving shirts. 12:49:30 Train coming directly at camera & passing. MS POWs unloading from train & into truck. 12:50:14 LS Jeep leading long convoy of Communist POWs in trucks into stockade; truck & ambulance into POW camp. 12:51:08 LS POWs refusing repatriation yelling, singing (from outside barbed wire enclosure) 12:51:25 MS Arriving POWs unload from back of Army truck; riot squad standing by. MLS Communist POWs inside enclosure whooping it up; guards standing along fence. 12:51:54 MLS Representatives of Communist POWs talk to officer at gate entrance. 12:52:03 Slate: 05Sep53 illegible. 12:52:11 LS Communist truck convoy passing w/ American POWs; approaching Freedom Gate. 12:53:13 Slate: 03Sep53 MS Returnees unloading from Communist truck & being led to reception tent; LS people stand, watching. 12:54:18 Slate: illegible. MS Communist soldiers running out of compound & into back of Army truck under guard. 12:55:20 Slate: 05Sep53 Camera: Armstrong. US Army trucks leaving thru gate . Line of parked trucks w/ waving prisoners, singing & waving flags in unison; trucks leaving. 12:57:19 LS to MS Convoy pulling onto paved road past MPs after leaving compound. Prisoners of War Exchange; NOTE: Op Big Switch began in Aug53 & ended Dec53. Operation Little Switch was April & May53 for wounded & sick prisoners. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk