New York City. View of Statue of Liberty. Parade on street with man carrying giant flag of the United States. Crowd lining up sidewalks. Brooklyn Bridge over East River. Canoes and rowboats in water of Central Park. People in park.
Surrender of Japanese Imperial forces leads to end of World War II. American planes approach Atsugi Air Base in Japan. Wrecked Japanese planes on airfield. Japanese labor works on airfield. C-54 aircraft lands in Atsugi. General Douglas MacArthur disembarks the plane. USS Missouri in Tokyo bay. Surrender ceremonies aboard USS Missouri. Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mamoru Shegemitsu (with cane), General Yoshijiro Umezu, Major General Yatsuji Nagai, Katsuo Okazaki, Rear Admiral Tadatoshi Tomioka, Toshikazu Kase, and Lieutenant General Suichi Miyakazi on deck of USS Missouri. Cameramen record event. General MacArthur speaks on mike. American officers surround General MacArthur. Surrender Instrument on table. Eleven men Japanese Delegation move ahead to sign the Surrender Instrument. Mamoru Shegemitsu signs Surrender Instrument. General Jonathan Wainwright and Lieutenant General Sir Arthur E Percival of British Army step forward with General MacArthur to sign Surrender Instrument. Map shows surrender locations like China, Manchuria, South West Pacific, Central Pacific, Japan, South Korea and Philippines.
Various statues of American patriots. Minute man. Statue of Nathan Hale. Spanish-American Memorial statue, called "The Hiker." The 7th Regiment World War I memorial statue in Central Park, New York City. U.S. Marine Memorial with statue of Marines raising U.S. flag on Iwo Jima. Jefferson Memorial across Tidal Basin. Night view of Abraham Lincoln Statue in the Lincoln Memorial. Night aerial views of monuments and buildings in Washington DC.
First day of duty of the United States Air Force personnel in Vietnam. A briefing session to the Air Force officials at the Central Base Personnel Processing Office (CBPPO) in South Vietnam. An official addresses by a suspended microphone set. Personnel move to their barracks. A2C Gerald A. Fielder removes his clothes. (Vietnam War period).
United States Army Air Force soldiers at their base in the Japaneses island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. A C-47 plane of the U.S. Air Force landing at Central Field landing strip. Alongside the strip, tents of soldiers and military vehicles parked. Two soldiers talk with each other. A tent with sign 'Iwo Jima Inn Coffee Shop'. Airmen and soldiers talk and drink their coffee inside the tent .
United States Army Air Force airmen at their base in the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War 2. They stand on a ridge watching cleanup operations at site where P-51D 44-63912 "Miss Jackie" of the 531st Fighter Squadron, 21st Fighter Group suffered severe damage from a ground loop at Central Field, Iwo Jima. Other P-51s parked on the flightline in background. The site is surrounded by Airmen cleaning up and salvaging equipment and parts. Machine gun ammunition belts from the wreck. Men look beneath the damaged plane.
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