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Sunday, March 5. 2017

Surrender


This is newsreel film made of the surrender ceremony of the Japanese to MacArthur in Tokyo Bay in September 1945. Actual voice of the General. 




Posted by The Barrister in History at 13:40 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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at the end the narrator says: "the final United Nations victory has been won". bullshit. it was the USA.
#1 Alex G on 2017-03-06 08:23 (Reply)
America did play the major role but to ignore the vital contributions of other nations including Australia and New Zeland is to deny history. Imperial Japan wanted to conquer both of those nations.
#1.1 Sven Svenson on 2017-03-06 09:22 (Reply)
apart from being grammatically nonsense, your grossly and stupidly ignorant post explains the Ugly American image like none other I've seen on this forum. no American present then would have made your idiotic statement.

China: over 200,000 killed each month, averaged over the war.
#1.2 Vic Morrow's tommy gun on 2017-03-06 10:31 (Reply)
Absolutely right. Australia and China had this thing sewed up and didn't need America's meddling. No wonder you are called 'ugly American'. And shame on you for even noticing that America had something to do with the victory when we all know it was the UN. Shame!
#1.2.1 Someone on 2017-03-06 13:14 (Reply)
you got your five minutes of attention.
#1.2.1.1 replying to noone on 2017-03-06 14:13 (Reply)
A bit of trivia, Tony Curtis was a sailor on that ship watching the signing.
#2 blondi on 2017-03-06 10:07 (Reply)
Interesting side story. A friend of mine's father was an admiral during WWII. He was not very tall - about 5'6" or so. He'd played a major role in the war, was well known and fully expected to be aboard for the signing of the surrender.

Except he was told he wasn't attending. Not even allowed to be near Japan. The generals and admirals decided that they wanted to show an imposing image to the Japanese, where were generally shorter than us, and tower over them. So he and many others who expected to attend were not allowed to simply because of their height.

An interesting bit of PR and marketing by our military, and a story I hadn't heard until their family shared it with us several years ago (the one thing he did get were a number of personal pictures with MacArthur, Nimitz, Halsey, and some copies of various signed documents, all of which adorn my friend's house).
#3 Bulldog on 2017-03-06 16:16 (Reply)
The video simultaneously shows that violence does, indeed, solve some problems, and that the pen is mightier than the sword.
#4 Sean G on 2017-03-06 20:07 (Reply)

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