Surrender of Japanese Imperial forces leads to end of World War II. V-J Day (Victory over Japan) celebrations in August 1945. Americans celebrate as newspaper headlines announce V-J Day. Close up view of man holding Boston Post with headline "War Is Over." Teeming crowds in New York City's Times Square celebrating the news. Crowd of citizens, soldiers, and sailors in uniform surrounds a newspaper with headline "U.S. Announces Jap Surrender." Happy crowds of people waving, jumping, and smiling in jubilation. People show V signs. U.S. warships underway at sea. U.S. soldiers aboard ship. Japanese troops parading in Japan. Japanese aircraft lined up in flight line ready for take off to defend the Japanese mainland. Japanese amphibian tanks lined up ready for use against a possible allied invasion. Aerial view of actual atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima as seen from second B-29 aircraft accompanying the Enola Gay on the bombing run on August 6, 1945. Ruins of twisted metal and debris in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and civilians walking among the devastation. Japanese civilians along road. Japanese Generals deplaning and meeting U.S. General MacArthur on an airfield. Troops of 11th Airborne Division land in Japan. Marines reach Japanese shores at Yokosuka Naval Base in Landing crafts. American soldier raises American flag in Japan. American troops aboard Japanese battleship Nagato after Japanese surrender. View of the Nagato (later used as a target ship during Operation Crossroads).
U.S. military base in North Field, Tinian Island in Marianas Islands, South Pacific. 'Enola Gay' the B-29 bomber that dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, parked on the ramp. The fuselage of Enola Gay. Name Enola Gay painted on its nose. (World War II period).
Japan after World War II. A view of Kure, Hiroshima, Japan after the war. Japanese women pulling ropes to move gold caches. Men pulling out baskets of cache from an underground hideout. A woman writing notes on site. Men retrieve cache of coins. Japanese government gold, silver and platinum are removed from the caches. The soldiers take out baskets filled with coins. The collected treasure is taken away from the caches by the soldiers on a military tank. Japanese civilians watch the treasures being taken. A view of the Kure Harbor in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Hulks of wrecked Japanese ships at the harbor. Many wrecked ships in the harbor are seen.
Japanese film on Atomic bomb damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Destroyed departmental store, sacks of ration inside affected by radioactive radiations. Victims of various injuries and wounds in hospital, doctors working with patients. Excoriation by radiation in victims, infection in upper body, inside the mouth, deformed teeth. Animated map showing radiation affects at various distances near epicenter. Depilation of soldiers 7 weeks after bombing. Map shows affects in farther region. Depilating children with fever, excoriated mother and daughter. Excoriation and depilating old woman. (World War II period).
Japanese film on Atomic bomb damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Effects of harmful radiations from atomic bombing, on various internal organs of the human body. A cut section of human bone showing effects on bone marrow. Inner organs of human body observed under microscope. Harmful radiations effect blood, spleen, microscopic view of skin shows depilation and ulcer. Other organs as skull suffering depilation, testicles, ovaries, intestine, lung, lever, kidney, adrenal gland, thyroid gland examined. (World War II period).
Aerial view of Hiroshima in Japan after the atomic bombing. Destroyed buildings and debris all around the area. Japanese civilians walk on streets of Hiroshima with umbrellas. Wrecked buildings and a few isolated structures in the city. Aerial views of the city of Nagasaki in Japan after Atomic bombing. Citizens walk in paths through the rubble. Abandoned fire fighting equipment is seen. Aerial view of Osaka burned by fire bombs, Fleet of destroyed Japanese ships at Kure (Japanese Naval Base). Destroyed buildings and debris in Tokyo. Civilians walk on streets. Emperor's Imperial Palace, untouched by bombing. Japanese citizens bow and pay homage outside the palace. American planes patrol overhead. United States soldiers freed from Ofuna, an infamous Japanese-operated prison camp outside of Tokyo. Camp buildings at Ofuna Prison Camp seen and a group of freed American soldiers celebrates the liberation. A camp Ofuna guard bowing as freed American soldiers exit the camp.