Wounded Prisoner Exchange Operation (Little Switch) / Wounded U.S. Forces Transport to Japan

1. Shot List # Scene 1 (no reel info) A brief clip of the Little Switch operation filmed near Panmunjom, Korea. United Nations Command generals are seen moving about the site and conversing. # Scene 2 (1 min 5 sec / no reel info) Wounded U.S. forces prisoners of war are being evacuated to the U.S. Army Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. They are carried on medical vehicles arriving one by one at the hospital, where American medics in white gowns stand in formation to receive them. The vehicles stop and the prisoners are carried inside on stretchers. # Reel 1 (2 min 11 sec / filmed April 24) Medical vehicles carrying wounded men drive in succession to the U.S. Army Hospital in Tokyo. Arriving patients are unloaded from the vehicles. # Reel 1 (3 min 14 sec / filmed April 22) Another reel of POWs being transported to Japan. This footage shows wounded men on stretchers being carried out of a large U.S. military transport aircraft that has landed at the airport. # Reel 1 (4 min 19 sec / filmed April 21) A large transport aircraft lands at Tokyo Airport. The aircraft hatch opens and U.S. forces personnel enter to carry out the wounded on stretchers. # Reel 2 (5 min 13 sec / filmed April 21) Continuation of the preceding scene. Stretcher-borne soldiers continue to be transported in the same manner. Press photographers at the airport are seen documenting the event. Although most of the prisoners are carried on stretchers, those with minor injuries walk on foot.