Reel Number: 220506-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945,1940s
Country: Japan,Philippines,USA
Location: Luzon, Near Mt Makiling
TC Begins: 01:03:51
TC Ends: 01:11:37
Duration: 00:07:46
Similar Sub-themes
Sign in with Google
Post-WWII - 1945, Pacific, Phlippines: Luzon POW Camp 1, Hard Labor. 27Nov45 Slate: Luzon POW Camp 1 22Nov45 Large POW camp, Japanese (?) working smoothing edge of raised road by hand shoveling. Tents visible behind. 01:05:01 LS Men past guard post in long rows w/ ropes pulling roller. Work crews w/ shovels on shoulders passing each other on road; 100s of men. MS & CUs. Each pitching a shovel of dirt to side then walking back (real make-work project forced labor). 01:08:04 Slate: same. Men walking past, each w/ shovel of dirt; tents in background. View along deep V trench w/ men in deep trench digging into buckets & pulled out. 01:09:46 Slate: same. MS buckets / baskets of dirt lifted out. Men climb up side of trench w/ rope. March back & cross wooden footbridge over ditch to camp. US Army jeep past guard post & into camp past sign: Luzon POW Camp #1 Main Entrance. CU. Pacific War; Post-WW2; Prisoners of War; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.