United News : Japan surrenders

Format:

Datafile

Government document

Author/Creator:

Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau.

Contributor:

United States. National Archives and Records Administration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.

Truman, Harry S.

World War, 1939-1945--United States.

World War, 1939-1945.

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.

Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936.

United States.

Genre:

Newsreels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (10 min., 49 sec.) : digital, Flash, sound, black and white

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : National Archives and Records Administration, [1945]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 10, 2006).

OCLC:

68624345