September 1945 Newsreel: Japanese Sign Final Surrender

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United Newsreel (U.S. Office of War Information) news from September, 1945: Japanese Sign Final Surrender National Archives Description: "Shows the signing of the Japanese surrender documents aboard the battleship Missouri in the Bay of Tokyo on Sept. 2, 1945. Includes shots of the destroyer Buchanan and airplanes flying overhead. Personages: Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gene Yoshijiro Umezo of Japan; Gen. MacArthur; Gen. Wainwright; Brit. Gen. Arthur E. Percival; Adms. Halsey and Nimitz; Chinese Gen. Hsu Yung-Ch'ang; Brit. Adm. Bruce A. Fraser; Russian Gen. Kuzma Derevyanko; Australian Gen. Thomas Blamey; Canadian Col. L. Moore Cosgrave; French Gen. Jacques LeClerc; Adm. C.E.L. Helfrich of the Netherlands; Air Marshall Leonard M. Isitt of New Zealand." National Archives Identifier: 39079 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or Archive.org itself. Thanks. :)

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WWII, Newsreel, World War II, United States. Marine Corps, Helfrich, Conrad E. L. (Conrad Emile Lambert), 1886-1962, Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-1953, MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964, Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966, USS Buchanan (DD-484), United States. Army, Isitt, Leonard Monk, 1855-1937, Cosgrave, L. Moore (Lawrence Moore), 1890-1971, Shigemitsu, Mamoru 1887-1957, Xu, Yongchang, 1887-1959, Rites And Ceremonies, Derevi︠a︡nko, K. N. (Kuzʹma Nikolaevich), 1904-1954, Umezu, Yoshijiro, Gen., -1949, USS Missouri, Halsey, William Frederick, 1882-1959, USS Missouri (BB-63), World War, 1939-1945, USS Buchanan, Blamey, Thomas, Sir, 1884-1951, World War, 1939-1945 -- Peace, V-J Day, 1945, Capitulations, Military, Fraser, Bruce, 1888-1981, Leclerc, Jacques P. (Jacques Philippe), 1902-1947, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, American

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