- Title: VM-829B
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- Description:00:01:48 - JET-PROPELLED P-80 IS WORLD'S FASTEST PLANE. MONTAGE SEVERAL VIEWS OF NEW P-80 FIGHTER JET. PLANE TAKES OFF FOR TEST. P-80 IN FLIGHT 00:02:24 - MARSHAL PETAIN IS TRIED FOR TREASON. PALACE OF JUSTICE IN PARIS. POLICE CHECK CREDENTIALS OF PEOPLE ENTERING PALACE. 00:02:42 - EDOUARD DALADIER, PREMIER AT TIME OF MUNICH, IS PROSECUTION WITNESS, ALONG WITH FORMER PRESIDENT ALBERT LEBRUN AND PAUL RENAULT. MARSHAL PETAIN, IN FULL UNIFORM ENTERS COURTROOM, CHARGED WITH TREASONABLE COLLABORATION WITH NAZIS. 00:03:20 - PETAIN RISES AND READS PERSONAL STATEMENT. CLAIMS HIS ACTIONS SAVED FRANCE FROM WORSE TREATMENT BY GERMANS. PAN OF CROWDED COURTROOM 00:03:42 - WHITE BEARDED SOLICITOR GENERAL MORNET IN HIS COURT ROBE WAVES HAND WILDLY AS HE PUTS FORTH GOVERNMENT CHARGES. CU PETAIN LISTENS WITH CHIN RESTING ON HAND. CU HAND FIDGETS. PETAIN WIPES BROW WITH HAND. 00:04:14 - ENTIRE VILLAGE OF SHIMA BARU, OKINAWA MOVED BY WAR LONG COLUMN OF VILLAGERS WITH THEIR ANIMALS, BELONGINGS ARE ESCORTED TO NEW HOME LOCATION TO MAKE WAY FOR AIRFIELD. GIS HELP THEM ONTO TRUCKS 00:04:53 - OKINAWAN MEN SIGN UP TO HELP BUILD AIRFIELD. WORKERS SMASHING ROCKS FOR RUNWAY. OKINAWAN SITS AND EATS BOWL OF RICE WITH CHOPSTICKS. 00:05:22 - TRUMAN, STALIN, ATTLEE END BERLIN MEETING. LARGE GROUP OF CAMERAMEN TAKE SHOTS OF STALIN, TRUMAN & CHURCHILL OUTSIDE EMPEROR"S PALACE IN POTSDAM JUST BEFORE CHURCHILL LEFT FOR ELECTION IN ENGLAND WHICH HE LOST. 00:06:17 - NEW PRIME MINISTER CLEMENT ATTLEE RETURNS TO BERLIN TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS WITH STALIN, TRUMAN. 00:06:54 - ATTLEE, TRUMAN AND STALIN POSE. 00:06:58 - JAPAN'S HOMELAND BLASTED BY SEA AND AIR. AERIAL ADMIRAL HALSEY'S HUGE 3RD ARMADA IS SEEN IN AS IT ASSEMBLES FOR NAVAL BOMBARDMENT OF JAPANESE HOMELAND. BATTLE FLAGS ARE RAISED. 00:07:27 - SAILOR TESTS GAGES IN GUN CONTROL ROOM. CLOSE-UP OF GAUGES. SAILOR SPINS WHEEL INSIDE GUN ROOM SETTING RANGE. MONTAGE 14 BIG AIRCRAFT CARRIER SAIL IN LONG LINE. 00:08:00 - ADMIRAL HALSEY RIDES IN BUCKET ON CABLES STRETCHED BETWEEN TWO SHIPS. HALSEY POSES WITH VICE ADMIRAL FITCH AND ASSISTANT NAVY SECRETARY SULLIVAN. HALSEY AT PLOTTING TABLE. 00:08:25 - ANIMATED MAP OF JAPAN SHOWS STRATEGY. MONTAGE PLANES TAKE OFF FROM AIRCRAFT CARRIERS. FIGHTER PEELS OFF FOR ATTACK ON JAPANESE SHIPPING IN HARBOR. AS SEEN FROM FIGHTER ALONGSIDE. AERIAL ROCKETS MAKE SWOOSHING SOUND AS THEY ARE FIRED ON SHIPS. 00:09:01 - AERIAL PLANES ARE SEEN ON GROUND AT JAPANESE AIRFIELD BEFORE THEY ARE ATTACKED. SMOKE RISES FROM PLANES HIT BY STRAFING. AERIAL MONTAGE ROCKETS & STRAFING OF BUILDINGS AND MILITARY BARRACKS. 00:09:50 - JAPANESE MAINLAND IS SEEN FROM WARSHIPS JUST 3000 YARDS AWAY. ADMIRAL HALSEY PEERS AT MAINLAND THROUGH LARGE TELESCOPE ON DECK OF SHIP. NAVY GUN CREW IS SEEN OPENING BREECH OF HUGE GUN, PLACING SHELL & THEN 2 POWDER CHARGES INSIDE, CLOSING BREECH. MONTAGE LARGE GUNS MOVE SKYWARD, FIRE 00:12:03 - JAPAN SURRENDERS. JAPANESE TROOPS BOARDING TROOPSHIPS FOR CONQUEST OF MANCHURIA IN 1931. CHINESE SEARCH THROUGH SMOKING RUINS OF BUILDING IN SHANGHAI AFTER JAPANESE ATTACH IN 1937. DEAD BODIES LIE IN STREET. 3 WHEELER MOTORCYCLE WITH ARMED CIVILIANS SPEEDS THROUGH STREET. 00:12:33 - JAPANESE DIPLOMATS ADDRESS LEAGUE OF NATIONS ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY THEIR CRIMES, WALK OUT. JAPANESE DIPLOMATS WEAR TOP HATS AND BOWLERS. 00:12:45 - JAPANESE TROOPS IN FIELD. MACHINE CREW & ARTILLERY FIRING AT CHINESE POSITIONS. TROOPS CHARGING THROUGH OPEN FIELD. 00:13:14 - ITALIAN TROOPS STAND AT ATTENTION AS ITALIAN FLAG IS RAISED IN ETHIOPIA. CU HAND POURS CHAMPAGNE INTO GLASSES AS ITALY, GERMANY, JAPAN CELEBRATE PACT FORMING THE AXIS ALLIANCE. JAPAN'S TOJO IS THERE. DIPLOMATS RAISE GLASSES IN TOAST. 00:13:37 - CHINESE REFUGEES CARRYING POSSESSIONS RUN BRISKLY THROUGH STREETS AND ROADS TO ESCAPE ONCOMING JAPANESE. CHINESE ARTILLERY CREW FIGHT BACK. MONTAGE SOLDIERS ADVANCE THROUGH FIELD WITH JAPANESE SHELLS EXPLODING AROUND THEM. 00:14:05 - JAPANESE AMBASSADORS KORUSU AND MOMURA ENTER GOVERNMENT BUILDING IN WASHINGTON BEFORE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR IN 1941. 00:14:19 - INFAMOUS SHOT OF SMOKE BELLOWING FROM BATTLESHIP IN PEARL HARBOR DURING ATTACK ON DECEMBER 7, 1941. 00:14:37 - MONTAGE WARSHIPS AT SEA. CANNONS FIRING, MARINES RIDING TOWARDS SHORE IN LANDING CRAFT, AT GUADALCANAL, BOUGAINVILLE, TARAWA, GUAM, OTHERS. 00:15:00 - MARINE CLEANS HIS RIFLE. ALLIED PRISONER OF JAPANESE WALKS FEEBLY WITH CANE, ANOTHER WITH NO ARM, ALL RESULTS OF BAD TREATMENT BY JAPANESE. MACARTHUR BEING CONGRATULATED BY WOMEN AND MEN AFTER LIBERATION OF PRISON CAMP IN PHILIPPINES. 00:15:22 - AERIAL IWO JIMA. WARSHIPS FIRING SALVOS. AERIAL VIEW OF HUNDREDS OF LANDING CRAFT HEADING FOR SHORE IN IWO JIMA AS SEEN FROM VERY HIGH UP. MONTAGE JAPANESE DEAD SCATTERED ON GROUND. FLAG BEING RAISED ON IWO JIMA MOUNT SURIBACHI. 00:16:08 - DEAD JAPANESE BODY SLIDES DOWN OFF HILL AS MARINES BATTLE CAVE BY CAVE IN OKINAWA. 1ST MASS SURRENDER OF JAPANESE SOLDIERS ON OKINAWA. MONTAGE SENSATIONAL KAMIKAZE PLANE ATTACKS ON WARSHIPS OFF OKINAWA INFLICT HEAVY DAMAGE AND CASUALTIES 00:17:06 - MASS BURIAL AT SEA OF U.S. CASUALTIES RESULTING FROM KAMIKAZE RAIDS. GI CEMETERY ON OKINAWA. MONTAGE B-29S ON GROUND AND IN AIR. 00:18:11 - EXPLOSION, MUSHROOM CLOUD FROM A-BOMB. PAN OF CLEMENT ATTLEE, TRUMAN AND STALIN AT ROUND TABLE AT POTSDAM. 00:18:37 - EMPEROR HIROHITO IN BEMEADALED UNIFORM, RIDES HIS WHITE HORSE DURING REVIEW OF MILITARY. 00:18:50 - SECRETARY OF WAR STIMSON, SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES, NAVY SECRETARY FORRESTAL ARRIVE AT WHITE HOUSE FOR MEETING WITH TRUMAN. TRUMAN AND CABINET POSE AT TABLE TO STUDY JAPANESE SURRENDER. 00:19:07 - PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT POSES BEFORE HIS DEATH. FDR WITH MACARTHUR. ADMIRAL CHESTER NIMITZ POSES. PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN READS MESSAGE OF UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER FROM JAPAN AS CABINET LOOKS ON. FORMER SECRETARY HULL IS THERE. 00:21:00 - BEVY OF NEWS REPORTERS RUN OUT OF PRESIDENT'S OFFICE TO GET TO PHONE TO CALL IN THE STORY. 00:21:06 - TWO MILLION NEW YORKERS JAM TIMES SQUARE, READ ELECTRONIC TOTE BOARD ON TIME'S BUILDING TELLING OF SURRENDER. 00:21:18 - PAPER FLOATS DOWN FROM HOTEL BUILDING IN CELEBRATION. LOOKING UP. TWO WOMEN STAND ON WINDOW LEDGE AND DROP TICKER TAPE DOWN TO STREET FAR BELOW. MONTAGE CHEERING CROWDS CELEBRATING IN STREET HOLD SAILOR ON SHOULDERS AS HE WAVES LARGE U.S. FLAG. SAILOR PLANTS FLAG ON LAMP POST 00:21:52 - HUGE REPLICA OF STATUE OF LIBERTY LOOKS DOWN ON MILLIONS BELOW. CELEBRATION CONTINUES INTO NIGHT. THEATERS, BILLBOARDS, ALL LIT UP 00:23:17 - CHINESE PREMIER T. V. SOONG VISITS U. S. SOONG ARRIVES BY PLANE IS MET BY AMERICAN AND CHINESE ENVOYS. 00:24:00 - ALLIES REVEAL DETAILS OF RADAR. TWO NAVY CIVILIAN SCIENTISTS, DR. A. WHITE TAYLOR AND LEO C. YOUNG WHO CONTRIBUTED TO ITS DEVELOPMENT POSE IN LAB WITH UNIT. CU SAILOR HOLDS CATHODE TUBE USED IN RADAR. 00:24:30 - MONTAGE ANIMATED DRAWINGS SHOW HOW RADAR WORKS. 00:26:45 - CU GI GIVES ORDERS TO ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERIES OVER HEAD SET. GI GUN CREWS TRACKING INCOMING PLANE AT NIGHT, WITH RADAR EQUIPMENT. HUGE RADAR EQUIPPED SPOTLIGHT IS TURNED ON. AUTOMATICALLY AIMED GUNS FIRE. FIERY PLANE PLUMMETS TO EARTH 00:27:36 - CU RADAR SCREEN WITH REVOLVING DIAL PICKING UP OBJECT IN SKY. PILOT AT CONTROLS OF PLANE. GROUP OF TECHNICIANS WITH HEAD SETS WATCHING SCREENS. CU MAN WITH HEADSET COMMUNICATES ORDERS. BRINGS IN PLANE DURING BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS. 00:28:49 - ATOMIC BOMB SECRETS TO BE CLOSELY GUARDED. MONTAGE SCIENTISTS IN THEIR LABORATORIES. 00:29:07 - DOCTOR EARNEST O. LAWRENCE IN LAB AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. HE EXPERIMENTED IN SECRECY WITH CYCLOTRON WHICH LED TO SPLITTING OF URANIUM ATOM. ANIMATED DRAWINGS SHOW ELEMENTS OF ATOM. 00:30:01 - LABORATORIES AT OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE, WHERE ATOMIC BOMB WAS PRODUCED. PAN. SOME OF THE THOUSANDS OF WORKERS EXIT THE PLANTS AT OAKRIDGE. 00:30:24 - VIEWS OF NEW MEXICO DESERT WHERE BOMB WAS TESTED. NIGHT IS LIT UP BY HUGE ATOMIC EXPLOSION. AS SEEN FROM 6 MILES AWAY. 00:31:09 - MONTAGE OTHER VIEWS OF EXPLOSION SHOWS MUSHROOM CLOUD AND BRIGHT FLASH. 00:32:09 - CU PRESIDENT TRUMAN ANNOUNCING THAT SECRET OF BOMB WILL REMAIN SECRET UNTIL MEANS TO CONTROL IT ARE FOUND. 00:34:16 - GENERAL DE GAULLE VISITS AMERICA. SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES GREETS DE GAULLE AT PLANE SITE. DE GAULLE'S LIMO PULLS UP TO WHITE HOUSE. TRUMAN & DE GAULLE WALK OUT TO GARDEN. HONOR GUARD IS REVIEWED. 00:35:00 - DE GAULLE PLACES WREATH AT ROOSEVELT'S GRAVE IN HYDE PARK AS MRS. ROOSEVELT WATCHES. THE TWO CHAT. DE GAULLE INSPECTS CADETS AT WEST POINT. PLACES WREATH AT STATUE. CU DE GAULLE MAKES SPEECH. 00:36:28 - SCHOOL DAYS ON OKINAWA. YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS DO OUTDOOR CALISTHENICS AT SCHOOLS. 00:37:02 - JAPANESE FEMALE TEACHER WRITE ON BLACKBOARD IN ENGLISH. CU HANDS PLAYING PIANO. THREE YOUNG JAPANESE GIRLS SINGING. MALE AMERICAN TEACHER CONDUCTS THE SINGING WITH ENGLISH WORDS OF SONG ON BLACKBOARD BEHIND HIM. 00:37:21 - MARSHAL PETAIN CONVICTED OF TREASON. HALL OF JUSTICE IN PARIS. CU PETAIN SITS IN DEFENDANTS SEAT IN COURTROOM. PIERRE LAVAL ARRIVES IN COURT TO TESTIFY. PETAIN GESTURES TO LAVAL CAUSING LAVAL TO LAUGH AS HE TESTIFIES. 00:37:50 - MONTAGE FILM OF LAVAL AND PETAIN TOGETHER DURING GERMAN OCCUPATION. PETAIN STANDS TO HEAR VERDICT. GUILTY, LIFE IN PRISON. PETAIN IS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE AS HE ENTERS PRISON 00:38:32 - JAPAN'S SURRENDER EMISSARIES GET ORDERS IN MANILA. WHITE PLANES MARKED WITH RED CROSS LANDS IN MANILA WITH JAPANESE EMISSARIES. LT. GENERAL KOWABE HEADS GROUP OF NAVY AND MILITARY OFFICIALS. LARGE GROUP OF GIS AND CAMERAMEN WATCH FROM SIDELINES. 00:40:00 - JAPANESE DELEGATION BOARDS AMERICAN C-47 FOR TRIP TO SURRENDER DESTINATION. PLANE LANDS AT NICHOLS FIELD OUTSIDE MANILA. CROWDS OF GIS WATCH FROM GROUND AND TOWERS. 00:41:13 - JAPANESE DELEGATIONS ARRIVE AT MANILA CITY HALL, ARE RELIEVED OF THEIR SAMAURI SWORDS. GENERAL RICHARD SOUTHERLAND IS PRESENTED THE OFFICIAL SURRENDER CREDENTIALS. GRIM-FACED JAPANESE GENERAL SITS AT TABLE ACROSS FROM AMERICANS. 00:43:34 - ALLIED FORCES LAND IN JAPAN. AERIAL ADMIRAL HALSEY'S 400 SHIP 3RD FLEET STEAMS AT FULL STRENGTH TO JAPANESE HOME WATERS. HALSEY SMILE FROM COMMAND DECK. SHOTS OF BATTLESHIPS AND CARRIERS. 00:44:21 - AERIAL HUNDREDS OF U. S. TRANSPORT PLANES ON AIRFIELD IN OKINAWA STAND READY TO FLY THE 11TH AIRBORNE DIVISION TO TOKYO. 00:44:21 - MOUNT FUJIYAMA IS SEEN IN DISTANCE BY TRANSPORT PLANES AS THEY FLY OVER JAPAN. 1ST TRANSPORT LANDS AT OCTUGI AIRDROME JUST OUTSIDE TOKYO. JAPANESE OFFICERS WALK OUT TO GREET AMERICANS. 00:45:05 - MAJOR GENERAL SWAIN AND LT. GENERAL EIKELBERGER CONFER WITH JAPANESE. FIRST AMERICAN FLAG IS MOUNTED OVER BUILDING AT OKTUGI. 00:45:47 - SQUAD OF JAPANESE MILITARY POLICE, PLACED UNDER ALLIED CONTROL, WALK ONTO FIELD. 00:46:37 - ADMIRAL CHESTER NIMITZ BOARDS HALSEY'S FLAGSHIP BOTH SHAKE HANDS. JAPANESE TUGBOAT COMES ALONGSIDE WARSHIP TO GUID IT THROUGH THE STRAIT. JAPANESE PILOTS COME ABOARD AND GUIDE SHIP THROUGH. 00:47:26 - WRECKAGE OF JAPANESE SEA POWER IS SEEN EVERYWHERE IN HARBOR. DAMAGED JAPANESE BATTLESHIP "MIGATO" LIES OUT OF ACTION IN HARBOR. SHIP AND GRIM CREW ARE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY NAVY. 00:48:19 - MONTAGE LANDING CRAFT WITH MARINES HIT BEACHES OF JAPAN. FLAG IS RAISED ON TOWER AS MARINES MARCH INLAND. USS "SAN DIEGO DOCKS AT OKOSOKA. 1ST SHIP TO TIE UP TO JAPANESE PIER. 00:49:41 - JAPANESE GENERAL STANDS SMUGLY BY AS AMERICAN OFFICER GESTURES FORCIBLY WITH FINGER TO TRANSLATOR. U. S. FLAG IS RAISED. 00:50:44 - SUPREME COMMANDER GENERAL MACARTHUR ARRIVES IN JAPAN ABOARD TRANSPORT PLANE "BATAAN". IS GREETED BY COMMANDER OF 8TH ARMY EIKELBERGER 00:51:08 - JAPANESE TRUCKS ORDERED FOR THE USE OF AMERICAN FORCES ARE LINED UP ALONG THE AIRSTRIP. AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR, SOME WITH CRUTCHES SHAKE HANDS WITH SOLDIERS IN TRUCKS ON THEIR WAY TO TOKYO. PAN OF POWS, ONE WITH ONE LEG 00:51:50 - MACARTHUR INSPECTS THE OCTUGI AIR BASE, SMOKING HIS LONG CORN COB PIPE. 00:53:29 - JAPANESE SIGN FINAL SURRENDER. SEVERAL VIEWS OF BATTLESHIP MISSOURI IN TOKYO BAY. GENERAL MACARTHUR, HIS CHIEF OF STAFF, GENERAL SUTHERLAND, BOARD "MISSOURI", THEY ARE WELCOMED BY ADMIRAL NIMITZ, ADMIRAL HALSEY. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1945 00:54:30 - CAMERAMEN OF MANY COUNTRIES RECORD EVENT AS DO CROWDS OF SAILORS FROM ALL SECTIONS OF SHIP WATCH. 00:54:47 - NAVY LAUNCH APPROACHES WITH JAPANESE OFFICIALS & GENERALS. THEY BOARD MISSOURI. AS JAPANESE OFFICIALS STAND BY, MACARTHUR SPEAKS. JAPANESE MINISTER SIGAMITSHU AND GENERAL OMETSU SIGN SURRENDER. MACARTHUR SIGNS. GENERAL WAINWRIGHT GETS FIRST PEN USED. BRITISH GENERAL PERSAVAL GETS SECOND. ADMIRAL NIMITZ SIGNS AS DO OTHERS FROM RUSSIA, CHINA, CANADA, FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, NETHERLANDS, NEW ZEALAND 01:02:27 - PICTURES INSIDE BOMB BLASTED JAPAN. AERIAL VIEW OF HIROSHIMA WHICH SHOWS DESOLATION AND RUIN AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE. PAN. 01:02:55 - MONTAGE PAN GROUND VIEWS OF ENORMOUS AND TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF HIROSHIMA BY ATOMIC BOMB. ONLY A FEW ISOLATED STRUCTURES STAND. PEOPLE WALK STREETS WITH UMBRELLAS AS IT RAINS. 01:03:39 - AERIAL NAGASAKI, TARGET OF SECOND ATOMIC BOMB. NO VISIBLE STRUCTURES ARE LEFT STANDING. AERIAL VIEW OF OSAKA WHICH WAS LEVELLED TO GROUND BY FIRE BOMBS. PAN 01:04:20 - AERIAL KURE, JAPANESE ARSENAL CITY IS LEVELLED. VIEW OF DISABLED REMNANTS OF ONCE POWERFUL FLEET IN HARBOR. LARGE BATTLESHIP LAYS ON ITS SIDE IN HARBOR. PAN OF BOMBED OUT BUILDINGS FOR MILES AS SEEN FROM DIRECTLY ABOVE. 01:05:02 - AERIAL VIEW OF A DEVASTATED TOKYO. MONTAGE GROUND VIEW SHOWS THE UTTER DESTRUCTION OF TOKYO. MEN AND WOMEN WALKING STREETS GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS. 01:05:48 - EMPEROR'S PALACE & BRIDGE ARE WHOLLY UNTOUCHED BY BOMBINGS. A FEW JAPANESE SUBJECTS WORSHIP OUTSIDE PALACE. MAN KNEELS AND BOWS TO GROUND WITH HIS HEAD AS AMERICAN FIGHTERS FLY OVERHEAD. 01:06:12 - OGUNA, ONE OF JAPANESE FOULEST PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS A FEW MILES FROM TOKYO. SMILING AMERICAN POWS AT CAMP WAVE TO CAMERA. BOTTLE OF LIQUOR IS PASSED AROUND. 01:06:43 - FORMER JAILERS BOW TO THE PARTING PRISONERS. TRUCK LOADED WITH POWS RIDES AWAY. 01:06:57 - PRESIDENT GOES TO BALL GAME. FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS. PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S LIMO, SURROUNDED BY SECRET SERVICE MEN, RIDES ONTO WASHINGTON SENATORS FIELD. TRUMAN GETS OUT TAKES SEAT IN STANDS. 01:07:16 - TRUMAN AUTOGRAPHS BALL FOR MASCOT BEFORE GAME BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND ST. LOUIS STARTS. TRUMAN THROWS OUT FIRST BALL. AERIAL ST. LOUIS TEAM TAKES TO THE FIELD. COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL CHANDLER, IS AMONG SPECTATORS IN STANDS. 01:07:52 - AERIAL GAME IN PROGRESS. WASHINGTON WINS 4 TO 1. TRUMAN SIPS DRINK AS MRS. TRUMAN WATCHES GAME. 01:08:01 - GENERAL WAINWRIGHT, HERO OF BATAAN, COMES HOME WAINWRIGHT IS GREETED AT AIRFIELD, BY HUG AND KISS FROM HIS SISTER. 01:08:37 - AERIAL PARADE DOWN SAN FRANCISCO'S MARKET STREET PEOPLE CHEER UNDER MARQUEE OF THEATER WITH "WELCOME GEN. WAINWRIGHT" ON IT. 01:09:11 - WAINWRIGHT ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON, IS GREETED BY WIFE HE HASN'T SEEN SINCE 1941. MOTORCADE DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE WITH POLICE MOTORCYCLE ESCORT. 01:10:06 - AERIAL THRONGS OF PEOPLE JAM WASHINGTON MONUMENT FOR CIVIC CEREMONY. SIGN, "WELCOME HOME, SKINNY" 01:10:34 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN PRESENTS WAINWRIGHT CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR IN OUTDOOR CEREMONY. 01:11:46 - JAPANESE SURRENDER MORE TERRITORY. NATIONAL ARCHIVES BUILDING IN WASHINGTON. CU JAPANESE SURRENDER DOCUMENT WITH JAPANESE & ALLIED SIGNATURES ARE SHOWN AS THEY ARRIVE AT ARCHIVES. 01:12:10 - MAP SHOWS CHINKIANG, CHINA WHERE JAPANESE SURRENDER IN CHINA. JAPANESE PLANE ARRIVES IN CHINA WITH SURRENDER DELEGATION. GENERAL CHOW YE SHU RECEIVES JAPANESE SURRENDER. CU JAPANESE OFFICER WIPES SWEAT OFF FACE. JAPANESE STAND AND BOW. 01:13:02 - LANDING CRAFT'S VIEW OF PRISONER OF WAR CAMP "NISSEN MILI NO. 2 AS IT APPROACHES DOCK. ALLIED POWS WAVE AND RUN AROUND JOYOUSLY AS CRAFT APPROACHES THEM. POWS WAVE HATS AND CHEER. 01:13:25 - POWS AT INFAMOUS AMORI CAMP WAVE AMERICAN, FRENCH & BRITISH FLAGS AS BOAT APPROACHES DOCK. MAP SHOWS MARCUS ISLAND WHICH SURRENDERS. 01:13:59 - JAPANESE REAR ADMIRAL MATSUBARA AND HIS AIDES SIT AT SURRENDER TABLE FACING ALLIED OFFICERS AS HE AND AMERICAN GENERAL SIGNS 01:14:46 - AMERICANS TAKE SAMAURI SWORDS, FOUNTAIN PEN PISTOLS AND A LIVE HAND GRENADE FROM JAP GENERALS SURRENDERING IN PHILIPPINES. GENERAL YAMASHITA KNOWN AS "TIGER OF MALAYA" ENTERS ROOM AND SITS. HE IS REMINDED BY JAP OFFICER TO STAND. 01:15:28 - AMERICAN DELEGATION HEADED BY LT. GENERAL STYLES ENTERS. GENERAL WAINWRIGHT WHO SURRENDERED TO JAPANESE AT CORREGIDOR, SITS IN, AS DOES GENERAL PERSIVAL WHO SURRENDERED TO YAMASHITA AT SINGAPORE. CU "INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER". YAMASHITA SIGNS. 01:16:24 - PRISON IN MANILA WHERE YAMASHITA IS TAKEN. PRISONERS PEER THROUGH BARRED WINDOWS OF PRISON. YAMASHITA IS GIVEN CELL. 01:16:48 - QUISLING IS CONVICTED OF TREASON. MONTAGE GUARDS INSPECT CREDENTIALS OF CORRESPONDENTS OUTSIDE COURTHOUSE IN OSLO, NORWAY. VERDUN QUISLING EXITS PRISON VAN, ENTERS COURT. 01:17:44 - CU AS QUISLING WATCHES, SEVEN JUDGES SENTENCE HIM TO DEATH FOR TREASON. 01:18:02 - ALLIED POWERS OCCUPY VIENNA. VIEWS OF VIENNA FROM HILLS AND FROM THE DANUBE. 01:18:19 - FLAGS OF RUSSIA, BRITAIN, FRANCE, U. S. HANG ON BUILDING AS MILITARY PARADE MARCHES DOWN SQUARE. GENERAL MARK CLARK REVIEWS PARADE WITH OTHER ALLIED MILITARY LEADERS. 01:18:39 - MAN, WOMAN DRIVE DOWN CITY STREET IN HORSE-DRAWN WAGON WITH THEIR SMALL CHILDREN AND BELONGINGS IN BACK, AS DISPLAYED PERSONS CONTINUE TO STRAGGLE INTO HUNGRY CITY. 01:18:41 - MAN AND WOMAN CARRY LARGE POT OF SOUP INTO BUILDING WHERE LINES OF PEOPLE WAIT FOR HAND-OUT. 01:19:02 - AGING VOSHLAV VISHINSKY, ONCE GREATEST BALLET DANCER, INSANE FOR 27 YEARS, WALKS OUT OF BUILDING MAKING 1ST PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN YEARS. 01:19:15 - AMERICAN TROOPS ENTER TOKYO. TROOPS OF 1ST CAVALRY DIVISION MARCH FROM DOCKS TO TOKYO. CU SIGN AND INSIGNIA, "1ST CAV. DIV., 1ST IN TOKYO". 01:19:43 - THREE SOLEMN FACED JAPANESE KIDS WAVE AMERICAN AND BRITISH FLAGS AS U. S. TRUCKS AND TANKS PASS. PEOPLE ALONG ROAD WATCH SOLEMNLY. 01:20:09 - AERIAL LIMO WITH GENERAL MACARTHUR RIDES THROUGH GATE OF AMERICAN EMBASSY. U. S. HONOR GUARD STANDS AT ATTENTION. MACARTHUR AND OTHERS SALUTE AS U. S. FLAG IS RAISED. 01:20:40 - TAPE ENDS. }I
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-829B