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Japan Surrenders 1945
A new version of this film is now available on the U.S. National Archives YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/ZkJWB5SMXNY
SUMMARY
Shows Japan's international activities, 1931-1945: troops embark for Manchuria; Shanghai lies in ruins (1937); Japans delegation leaves the League of Nations; war rages in China; Italian troops invade Ethiopia; Franco's troops guard Madrid; a party celebrates the Axis pact of 1940; Chinese refugees clog the streets; Pearl Harbor is attacked; remnants of the U.S. fleet assemble; the amphibious assault on Guadalcanal; Gen. MacArthur returns to the Philippines; Iwo Jima is attacked; Gen. Buckner watches Japanese surrender on Okinawa; kamikaze planes attack aircraft carriers; B-29's bomb Japan; the Navy bombards Hokaido; the atom bomb devastates Hiroshima; the Potsdam Conference meets; a parade in Moscow; Hirohito rides in a procession; Pres. Truman announces the Japanese surrender; and New York City rejoices. Other personages: Adm. Halsey, Pres. Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek, Adm. Nimitz, Sec. of State Byrnes, Sec. of War Stimson, Sec. of the Navy Forrestal, Cordell Hull, Adm. Leahy, Molotov, Stalin, Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin.
Transcript (PDF): http://archives.gov/social-media/transcripts/transcript-japan-surrenders-39075.pdf
CREATED BY
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. (12/17/1942 - 09/15/1945)
* Aircraft carriers
* Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936
* Parades
* Potsdam Conference, 1945
* Refugees
* Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
* Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
* World War, 1939-1945
* Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967.
* Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951.
* Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1886-1945
* Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972
* Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975
* Forrestal, James, 1892-1949
* Halsey, William Frederick, 1882-1959
* Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989
* Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955.
* Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959
* MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964
* Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-
* Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966
* Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
* Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950
* Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
* League of Nations
* Moscow (Moskva autonomous city, Rossiya, Russia, Asia) inhabited place
* New York (New York state, United States, North and Central America) inhabited place
* Pearl Harbor (Oahu, Honolulu county, Hawaii, United States, North and Central America) harbor
* Philippines (Asia) nation
SUBJECT
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