Summary

Japan surrenders to the US, ending World War II in the Pacific

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel GHOC
Negative # C-4
Clip SR004496_03_01mov
Date 01/01/1960
Title Japan surrenders to the US, ending World War II in the Pacific
Description [GHOC Episode C-04] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title Japs Surrender with photo of surrender ceremony / [9/2/1945] VS USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, sailors in dress whites on board / Japanese rising sun flag; dissolve to Japanese Emperor Hirohito riding a horse at troop review / Japanese soldiers yell passionately, raise weapons and battle flags / artillery shell hits small hill / soldier shoots flamethrower in Naha, Okinawa / VS soldiers arrive at Japan via landing craft // [8/6/1945] B-29 flies above clouds / aerial Hiroshima; zoom in / quick graphic representing explosion / mushroom cloud at Trinity a-bomb test in New Mexico / VS extensive bomb destruction: rubble, destroyed buildings // [9/2/1945, Tokyo Bay] VS Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers Gen Douglas MacArthur walks on deck of USS Missouri / journalists / VS motor launch bearing Japanese delegation approaches; US soldiers stand at attention as Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu boards the Missouri / VS Shigemitsu leans on cane as he looks at the surrender documents on a table; he sits, removes top hat and white gloves / high angle shot Shigemitsu signs instrument of surrender as MacArthur watches / VS MacArthur, Gen Jonathan Wainwright watch signing / US soldiers, journalists, cameramen watch from gun turret platform / Gen Yoshijiro Umezu of the Imperial Japanese Army signs / VS MacArthur signs, hands Wainwright the first pen he used / Japanese delegation looks on / USS Missouri's gun turret / VS Allied officials with instrument of surrender / side view MacArthur speaks into microphone / VS military jets fly in formation // [8/14/1945, New York City] WS thousands of cheering celebrants in Times Square as Japan's surrender is announced / VS happy people in crowd wave, smile; ticker with Surrender; mock-up of Statue of Liberty; soldier dances with woman as onlookers smile, cheer / black / end credits / Note: exact date of compilation not known
Personality Douglas MacArthur, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Jonathan M Wainwright, Yoshijiro Umezu
Country Japan
City Tokyo

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