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WWII - 1944, Pacific, New Guinea: Torokina POW Camp. 03Mar44 R3 & R1 of 3

Reel Number: 220506-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944,1940s

Country: Japan,Papua new Guinea,Solomon Islands,USA

Location: New Guinea - Torokina, Bougainville,Pacific,SOLOMON ISLANDS

TC Begins: 00:44:33

TC Ends: 00:54:06

Duration: 00:09:33

WWII - 1944, Pacific, New Guinea: Torokina POW Camp. 03Mar44 R3 Slate: illegible. LS Guards patrolling barbed wire of camp holding Japanese POWs. 00:45:59 MLS & MS POWs questioned at table inside wire fence. Interrogation w/ Japanese-American Nisei translator. 00:47:50 Treating wounded. 00:48:25 Slate: 03Mar44 Interrogation of POWs at Torokina, Bougainville. Prisoners moved into small holding area; cameraman w/ large 35mm motion picture camera seen thru barbed wire fence. Still photographer taking picture. Filming & taking pictures as POWs are questioned. CUs. Treating wounds & infection on foot & leg. 00:51:53 CU POW playing homemade stringed instrument as others keep time by clapping. 00:52:43 POWs playing cards seen thru fence. 00:52:56 Slug. 00:52:59 R1 Wounded Japanese POWs treated & questioned by Nisei Japanese-American under supervision of Capt. J. Fisher. Smoking & eating rations. Man on stretcher on jeep moving past camera. WW2; Japanese Prisoners of War; NOTE: Combined reels 3 & 1 sold at per reel rate.

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