Reel Number: 221442-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1943
Country: USA
Location:
TC Begins: 10:08:11
TC Ends: 10:16:21
Duration: 00:08:10
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WWII Wounded Off Troop Transport; Italian POWs Arrive USA, ca 1943 Blacks carry wounded on stretcher down gangway from ship & onto hospital railroad car, troops watch from dock, ship & train. Nurses beside train. MCU of one w/ amputated foot. Officers checking off names. Man walking on crutches. 10:11:25 High angle of train pulling out, men wave from windows; train seen leaving dock warehouse. 10:11:56 Italian prisoners of war down gangway; MPs search them before boarding railroad. MCU more POWs off ship & down gangway & searched on dock. Marched off. 10:14:08 MP searching folded overcoat of POW on platform; frisking others standing, going thru papers. Having POWs unfold blankets. 10:15:18 Slate: 30May43 MPs emptying bottles into garbage cans; CU showing things thrown after seizing from POWs, mostly glass & metal. Welcome; USA Homefront;