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Newsreel: Japan Surrenders 1945
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National Archives description "Shows Japan's international activities, 1931-1945: troops embark for Manchuria; Shanghai lies in ruins (1937); Japans delegation leaves the League of Nations; war rages in China; Italian troops invade Ethiopia; Franco's troops guard Madrid; a party celebrates the Axis pact of 1940; Chinese refugees clog the streets; Pearl Harbor is attacked; remnants of the U.S. fleet assemble; the amphibious assault on Guadalcanal; Gen. MacArthur returns to the Philippines; Iwo Jima is attacked; Gen. Buckner watches Japanese surrender on Okinawa; kamikaze planes attack aircraft carriers; B-29's bomb Japan; the Navy bombards Hokaido; the atom bomb devastates Hiroshima; the Potsdam Conference meets; a parade in Moscow; Hirohito rides in a procession; Pres. Truman announces the Japanese surrender; and New York City rejoices. Other personages: Adm. Halsey, Pres. Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek, Adm. Nimitz, Sec. of State Byrnes, Sec. of War Stimson, Sec. of the Navy Forrestal, Cordell Hull, Adm. Leahy, Molotov, Stalin, Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin." National Archives Identifier: 39075 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $…
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Subjects
WWII, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Navy, World War, 1939-1945 -- Peace, Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967, United States. Army, Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972, Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950, V-J Day, 1945, Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951, Capitulations, Military, Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945, Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966, Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack On, 1941, Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-, United States. Marine Corps, MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964, Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959, Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955, Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989, Halsey, William Frederick, 1882-1959, Forrestal, James, 1892-1949, Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975, Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972, Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1886-1945
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