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Army-Navy Screen Magazine: 1946 - Issue 78
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keywords: Post-WWII, V-J Day, Japan Surrenders, General Douglas MacArthur
Synopsis: Day Of Victory Japan Surrenders...(read more)
- Date: 1946
- Duration: 00:15:49
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Japan
Day Of Victory - Japan Surrenders - Part 1
Newspaper headline reads "War Is Over". Newspaper headline reads "U.S. Announces Jap Surrender". People of the world celebrate V-J Day.
Flashback to the Japanese preparations for invasion of Japan by American forces. Shows great numbers of Japanese Army troops, artillery guns, rows of suicide planes at airfield and amphibious tanks ready to defend the Japanese homeland against American invasion.
Scenes of atomic bomb explosion and the devastation and destruction of Hiroshima. The destruction of Nagasaki after atomic bomb dropped three days later after dropping atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
The first American military soldiers to land in Japan, 11th Airborne Division troops land at Atsugi Airfield on August 28, 1945. Shows 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines landing at Yokosuka naval base in Tokyo Bay. Surrender of base by Japanese. The Japanese battleship Nagato. General Douglas MacArthur arrives in Japan. The landing of the C-54 "Bataan" at Atsugi Airfield. General Douglas MacArthur exits plane at Atsugi Airfield in Japan, CU of nose art "Bataan" on General MacArthur's plane.
The Battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Scenes of the Japanese formal surrender on the battleship USS Missouri September 2, 1945. General Douglas MacArthur opens the surrender ceremonies. Japan's Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signing surrender documents followed by Japanese General Yoshijiro Umezu. General MacArthur signing Japanese surrender documents. General Douglas MacArthur hands first pen to General Jonathan Wainwright, second pen handed to British Lt. General Arthur Percival. Shows animated map of the locations of the field forces of Japan that surrendered.
In Baguio City, Luzon, Philippines American General Jonathan Wainwright and British Lt. General Arthur Percival arrive to accept Japanese surrender. U.S. General Wainwright and British General Percival seated across table from Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita and Japanese Vice Admiral Denshichi Okochi. Raising of American flag at Wake Island, American flag waving in the breeze.
Day Of Victory - Japan Surrenders - Part 2
People throughout the Pacific and Asia celebrate V-J Day, the end of World War II with victory over Japan. Scenes of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) cheering. Shows the "living dead" liberated from Japanese prisoner of war (POW) camp. Prisoners show the scars of torture by the Japanese guards in POW camps. Stacks of Red Cross packages stolen by the Japanese guards at POW camp. Scene of a POW cemetery. Relieved prisoners leaving POW camp in Japan. Many prisoners moved to hospital ship Benevolence off-shore of Japan.
The disarming of Japanese soldiers and disbanding of the Japanese Army. The Japanese people start to re-build their country. Flashback scene of the military war lords (military leaders) looking at a map on a table. The Japanese people are given the freedom to read and write and vote. Japanese citizens casting their ballots. Bulldozers clearing rubble from streets of Tokyo, printing of a Japanese newspaper. Scenes of Japanese children. American soldiers boarding ship to leave occupied Japan. Japanese people enjoying freedom. CU image of Emperor Hirohito and on horseback before surrender. Emperor Hirohito walking among the Japanese people and talking with a group of young children.
Women voting for first time in Japan. Image of Japanese woman elected to Japanese House of Representatives. Japanese men and women adopt western dress. General Douglas MacArthur said "It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice."
