Prisoners of war

Captured Nazi officers and crew are marched to barracks in Charleston, South Carolina. They were captured by the Coast Guard cutter U.S.S. Icarus off the Atlantic coast. From: Sidney W. Souers Papers.

Two captured Nazi officers aboard the U.S.S. Icarus off Charleston, South Carolina. They are from a captured submarine. From: Sidney W. Souers Papers.

Adm. Sidney W. Souers (center) with captured Nazi officer aboard the U.S.S. Icarus.

Adm. Sidney W. Souers and other officers question a captured Nazi officer on the U.S.S. Icarus. Adm. Souers is at the far right and the Nazi officer at far left.

A captured German Nazi officer aboard the U.S.S. Icarus off Charleston, South Carolina. From: Sidney W. Souers Papers.

German prisoners in France after World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

German prisoners from World War I working on docks at LeHavre, France. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

After the Armistice was signed many French prisoners of war were turned loose near Verdun to shift for themselves. There were quite a few around our billets and we tried to feed as many as we could. Some of them were pretty well discouraged with their homes gone, families scattered and not knowing what the future held for them. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Unidentified prisoners of war at the Army 121st Evacuation Hospital, near Neubau, Austria. The hospital is in an abandoned German airport, and the prisoners were brought there after their removal from concentration camps.

Hundreds of North Korean prisoners of war are marched to enclosures at Inchon.