Celebration of 'Victory over Japan' (VJ) day in Honolulu, Hawaii at the end of World War II. Crowd of service men and civilians gathered for the celebration. Planes fly in formation. Old woman celebrates with other people. Woman carries a child in her arms. A board reads: 'Russian Antique shop' near a building. Sailors and civilians on vehicles on the street.
Celebration of 'Victory over Japan' (VJ) day in Honolulu, Hawaii. Crowd of service men and civilians gathered for the celebration. Crowd celebrates on the street. USO building in view. People stand on the roof top of a building. Sailors on the street. News boy sells papers consisting of the VJ Day peace news.
USAF General Henry Arnold meets crew of U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Super Fortress at Bolling Field, Washington, DC during World War II. C-47s lined up on the flight line. General Arnold, Lieutenant General Barney Giles and Brigadier General Lauris Norstad walk on the field. Crew members lined up in front of B-29. General Arnold in the foreground. General Norstad introduces the Aircraft Commander, Lt. DO Horsfall of Kalamazoo, Michigan, who salutes and shake hands with General Arnold. Lt. Horsfall introduces members of his crew who step forward, salute and shake General Arnold's hand. General Arnold tells the crew that U.S. bombers from China bases had been unable to reach the Japanese heartland. But B-29s from the Marianas would now be able to strike places like Hokkaido and Kyushu. He dictates a message for Horsfall and crew to write on a bomb. Crew members gather around bombs as the pilot writes the message, reading: 'To the war lords of Japan we have not forgotten. The B-29s will remind you again, again and again!'
United States Army Air Force officials in Munitions Building in Washington D.C. Office of General Henry Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces. General Arnold and staff seated at a desk. Colonel Trubee Davison, Colonel Thomas J. Hanley, Colonel Karl L Naiden, Lt General Arnold, Brigadier General Carl Spaatz and Brigadier General Martin F. Scanlon discuss over a document. Books in a shelf in the background. Map on a wall in the background.
U.S. Army Air Forces officials in the Munitions Building in Washington D.C. Office of General Henry Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Colonel Trubee Davison, Colonel Thomas J. Hanley, Colonel Karl L. Naiden, Lieutenant General Arnold, Brigadier General Carl Spaatz, and Brigadier General Martin F. Scanlon discuss a wall map and a globe. General Arnold points at places on the map and talks to the other military officers. Spaatz, Davison and Scanlon looks at the globe.
Meeting of the War Plans Division in the Munitions Building in Washington D.C during World War II. Officials seated at a desk. They discuss some documents. Colonel Harrison, Colonel Garson, Brigadier General Crawford, Brigadier General Dwight Eisenhower, Brigadier General Leonard Gerow, Colonel Handy, Colonel Sherrill, Colonel McKee and Colonel Jay W. MacKelvie seated at the desk. Colonel William P Scobey stands nearby and gives a document to the officials. Staff stands by a globe and discusses.
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