JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR AT PENWEGON [Allocated Title]

Prisoners, captured during a recent breakout operation by the Japanese 28th Army, are seen arriving at 17th Indian Division's headquarters at Penwegon, Burma, along with a group of Chinese 'comfort girls' freed from the Japanese.

A British corporal (a military policeman?) drives a jeep carrying five Chinese 'comfort girls'. They arrive at 17th Division HQ and get out. Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) arriving. Each POW is searched. POWs bathing in oil drums; they wash themselves. The 'comfort girls' are interrogated. Slow pans across the group of girls. They sign their names. POWs entering a wood and wire POW cage. Pan across a group of twenty POWs sitting on the ground in the cage. POWs eating; they squat on the ground and eat from boxes and tins. POWs file off to waiting trucks. The POWs, with armed escorts, board the trucks. The Chinese girls board a truck. The trucks drive away; presumably departing for a more secure location.

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