Video of the surrender of Japan

[Bluefish]

Copied from another forum, www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vcnH_kF1zXc&feature=player_embedded

Japanese surrender, Sept. 2, 1945
This film is believed to have never been seen before, only shots of the surrender were known .
If you are a history buff, you will enjoy this.
General MacArthur's voice is a rarity in this old film clip.

ACTUAL VOICE OF GENERAL MACARTHUR NEVER BEEN SHOWN TO GENERAL PUBLIC BEFORE .

Japanese Surrender- Amazing Footage Sept 2, 1945....
Interesting the other signers to the document, from New Zealand/Australia to Europe/Russia .

This is an actual film made of the surrender ceremony of the Japanese to MacArthur in Tokyo Bay in September 1945.
We always saw the "stills" but never the film itself.

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[Jemima]

Fascinating stuff Blue, thanks for shareing

[womble]

Amazing stuff, thanks for the post.

[Batdragon (AKA Batty)]

It is amazing to think that it finished with a signature by all those men. I bet most of those onlookers from the ships crew did not realize at the time how much of a big thing it was. May we never need such an historic time again.

[farzooks]

Amazingly, just after the documents were signed, the Japanese Army guarding the PoW camps were disarmed, then given back their arms and acted as police to protect the PoWs from outside forces - of which there were a few.

[jerryrm]

Oh they knew Bat. After 4 years of war (U.S. involvement) and thousands of deaths, they knew that they were going home.

My Dad served in the CBI (China, Burma, India) theater. He told me that when Germany surrendered, they all cheered, but when Japan surrendered, everyone went silent. They all realized that it was over and they were going back home to their loved ones.

[Batdragon (AKA Batty)]

Jul 13, 2012 0:46:57 GMT @jerryrm said:

Oh they knew Bat. After 4 years of war (U.S. involvement) and thousands of deaths, they knew that they were going home.

My Dad served in the CBI (China, Burma, India) theater. He told me that when Germany surrendered, they all cheered, but when Japan surrendered, everyone went silent. They all realized that it was over and they were going back home to their loved ones.

It must of been like a dream to a lot of them. have to keep checking that it has really happened and not just wishfull thinking.

In the Uk we have Rememberance Day Where on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, we pause to think of the fallen.

This video if for the americans who have lost their lives in conflicts all over the globe and should be remembered on their Memorial Day



There is a quote that comes up in the clip that said "It it not the reporter that gave us the freedom of speach but the soldier"

When I see people expressing that right against the very people who ensured that they had it, my blood boils, they know very little about what has gone on to allow them to be there, and if they were confronted with the evil that is in the world they might think twice about what they are doing.

These are my thoughts and feelings on this subject, and everyone who reads it has the right to their own, but keep in your thoughts how you are able to have your own thoughts in the first place.

[farzooks]

There would have been a tremendous sense of anticlimax and relief. It was generally known amongst the troops that expected Allied casualties in the invasion of the Japanese home islands would have been around the million mark.
To have that suddenly lifted, would have been very sobering. I've no doubt there was plenty of cheering elsewhere in the Pacific theatre, but on that battleship the surrounding personnel kept it down a bit because of all the brass around. Actually, they'd likely been told to button it and only cheer on command.
The real cheering in the Pacific happened a few days after the bombs dropped and Japan announced its surrender.

[jerryrm]

A former neighbor and friend of mine, was on Okinawa and was to be part of the force that was being put together for the planned invasion of Japan in November, 1945. It was a great relief to him and I'm certain to the others, when the surrender was announced.