Ceremony aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) as the Japanese surrender is signed in Tokyo Bay. Sailors stand in attention. U.S. Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr. greets U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz. Sailors sit and watch the ceremony. General of the U.S. Army Douglas MacArthur leads his party aboard and to their place. Uniform representatives of the Allied powers stand in attention. Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Mamoru Shigemitsu leads his party aboard and to their place. Douglas MacArthur opens the ceremony with a speech. Documents of surrender on table. General MacArthur,Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Halsey leave. (World War II period).
Amphibious attack by the U.S. forces on an island in the Pacific during World War II. A U.S. battleship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Naval guns firing at Japanese positions. Landing crafts loaded with soldiers approach the island. Aircraft in flight drop bombs. An armored vehicle drives into a beach. U.S. troops wade inland during combat. Marines ducking behind bushes before an explosion takes place on the beach. Dead Japanese soldiers’ bodies lying on the ground. A firing rocket launcher on USMC M-2-4 1-ton cargo truck. Vehicles driven inland. A soldier fires a gun. Soldiers filing out of grass. They carry ammunition. Flames come out of a Flamethrower. The soldiers sit in a trench. Injured soldiers are treated in the jungle. Medics carry a patient on a stretcher. A jeep is driven away. Tanks move in a line. Soldiers on a battlefield.
Bombing of Chungking (Chongqing), Republic of China during World War II and the Second Sino-Japanese War. Bombing attacks on Chungking (Chongqing) by the Japanese show concentrated bomb burst on the city. Geysers of bomb hits in the Yangtze River. A burning section of the bombed city. Bombed and fire gutted buildings. Fallen telephone poles and wires. Two Chinese firemen fight blazing fire. Heavy smoke in the background.
Top High School students from all over Japan are gathered for special honors. Koinobori carp kites flying. A Japanese official speaks over a microphone and reads from a paper. The students stand in formation and listen to him. Another Japanese official stands at a platform and speaks. The officials review the students and are escorted by soldiers. (World War II period).
The U.S. Navy task force underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The U.S. Navy planes take off from an carrier aircraft. U.S. sailors on the deck. The airplanes take off from the deck one after the other. A signal man gives a signal. Insignia of the United States on the airplanes. The airplanes in flight. The aircraft carrier underway. The airplanes in flight over the Tokyo Bay. The airplanes drop bombs on the Tokyo area. Explosions on the ground. Smoke rises due to explosions. Rockets are dropped at the Japanese War Installation on the field. The installation being shelled. Aerial view of the bombed area. An airplane in flight and drop bombs. The Japanese planes parked on the ground and are destroyed. The planes burn on the ground. An airplane in flight.
Bombings in Tokyo, Japan during World War II. A bomb truck backs up to a United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber at an airfield on Saipan, Mariana Islands during the preparations for Tokyo bombing. A soldier writes 'Only the Beginning' on a bomb. The soldier wheeling a bomb cart to the underside of the aircraft. An airman on the top of the aircraft. A Commandant briefing the members of the 21st Bombing Command. Mission leader United States Air Force Brigadier General Emmett O'Donnell and Commanding General of 21st Bombing Command Brigadier General Haywood Hansell, Jr., look at a document and discuss on the airfield. USAAF pilot Robert Morgan, who piloted B-29 Dauntless Dotty, with another crew member. The men beside the B-29 Dauntless Dotty which would lead the team. B-29s lined up on a runway. B-29 Dauntless Dotty takes off. Several men on the airfield watch. A man beside a camera mounted on a tripod takes pictures. The B-29s take off one after the other. They head towards Tokyo. A map shows the flight path from Saipan island to Tokyo, Japan over the Pacific Ocean. Aerial view of Tokyo. The B-29s drop bombs over target areas. Explosions occur in the bombed areas. The B-29s drop more bombs over industrial targets. Explosions occur. The B-29s head back to Saipan after the bombardment. U.S. Army tents in Saipan. Japanese aircraft drop bombs over an airfield in Saipan. Thick clouds of smoke rise from the bombed areas. Wrecked B-29s in view. Flames and smoke rising from the bombed areas. Wreckage of the Japanese aircraft shot down in the raid. Men extinguishing fire. A B-29 taking off from the airfield.
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