Japanese Sign Final Surrender, 1945

About this film

United Newsreels "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. :)

Directors & creators

United Newsreels

Subjects

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

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