Japanese surrender aboard USS Missouri in the Tokyo Bay, Japan. A launch approaches Missouri. Japanese envoys board and walk to surrender position. General of the Army (U.S. Army) Douglas MacArthur at a microphone. He addresses Japanese delegation. Japanese Prime Minster Shigemitsu Mamoru walks to a table and sits down. Russian emissary, Lieutenant General Kazma Derevyanko signs.
USS Seahorse SS (304) submarine off the coast of Tori Shima in Japan during World War II. Periscope view of coastline of island. Shows half ship in air, other half in water.
Living conditions of the Okinawans in the town of Ishikawa, Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. Natives seated in a compound outside huts. Fully clothed men wash their legs and faces. A man distributes food to the natives. The natives walk away with the food. They sit on the ground and eat the food. An aircraft in flight.
A Japanese prison camp at Urawa in Saitama, Japan towards the end of World War II. A Japanese military personnel near a muddy street in a village. U.S. officers and the Japanese military personnel enter the main gates of a prison building. American prisoners wave from the balcony of a building as they see U.S. officers arriving. A Japanese prison guard. Interiors of a washroom in the prison camp. A hole in the building where a U.S. Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped a food package. A Japanese police guard. A flag flies from the top of the building. Police officers getting prison bundles together.
American Naval Submarine Officers posing at the new Submarine Base, Yokosuka, Japan, about two weeks after the Japanese surrender, ending World War 2. Officers in group posing outside a building. A sign on the building reads: "Yokosuka Submarine Base." In the most formal group photo, Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, Commander, Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet is seen seated in front row, near center, as he poses with officers in his command.
Operation "Roads End,"involving the post-war scuttling of the Japanese submarine fleet. U.S. sailors opening boxes of demolition charges on the deck of Japanese Sen Toku I-400-class submarine aircraft carrier, number I-402, moored in Sasebo Bay, Japan. (It was converted to a tanker sub, and completed only 3 weeks before the end of the war, and never placed in service. I-402 is one of only 3 such boats ever completed.) A U.S. Navy launch, approaches and ties up to the I-402. Close view of the submarine as the launch approaches. Vice Admiral Robert M. Griffin, commander of U.S. Naval Forces,Japan, a Rear Admiral, and a Captain, climb from the launch onto the submarine. Scene shifts to a smaller sub ,tied up next to the I-402, where an U.S. Army Colonel, and Navy Captain, are conferring with a Japanese officer. A utility boat is tied up in the background. The Army colonel goes into a hatch leading below decks followed by the Navy Captain. Next scene shows Admiral Griffin emerging from an open hatch on the deck of the I-402. He speaks to a navy Commander standing nearby. Empty explosives boxes, previously seen, are now stacked in a pile near the boat's conning tower. Camera shows a Japanese aircraft carrier moving past a Japanese submarine. View from deck of the I-402, showing the smaller sub to the right, and another Japanese sub, behind, with smoke rising from it. High hills overlooking the bay, in background. Admiral Griffin conversing with the Rear Admiral. Japanese crew lounging on the utility boat next to the I-402. Group of American officers conversing near the hangar door of the I-402. View downward from the conning tower, of the admirals and other officers. U.S. Army Colonel points out something on deck of nearby small submarine. An I-400 class submarine and a Japanese cruiser. Japanese sailor opens hangar door of I-402. Admiral Griffin and his aide, inspect inside. The two admirals and the Captain examining the hangar.All the American officers gathered on deck of the I-402.
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