ATTEMPT TO GET JAPANESE SURRENDER, SIERRA MADRE MOUNTAINS, RIZAL PROVINCE, LUZON PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Part 1

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0220 Signal Corps ADC 5176 SOURCE: AFCF (A- 358) Card 1 of 2 DC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 699' ea Silent 176-1 ATTEMPT TO GET JAPANESE SURRENDER Sierra Madre Mts, Rizal Prov, Luzon, PI 15-22 Aug 1945 VS, Japanese American (Nisei) soldiers painting surrender streamers. (translated signs read: "Emperor has declared peace - Report to American troops"). VS, balloons are filled from cylinders and brought out of tent. Streamers are attached to balloons and released. LS, streamers carried by balloons drift over treetops. Seq: Nisei soldier giving instruction to four Japanese prisoners in the 38th Div stockade. Group looks over map where the prisoners are to go and bring back other Japanese soldiers. VS, prisoners walking out of stockade. VS, American officers of the 38th Div talk to Japanese officers. CU, Japanese officers reading headline of "Daily Pacifican" announcing surrender in ten days. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY FB/es Signal Corps ADC 5176 111 SOURCE: AFCF (A-358) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 699' ea Silent 5176-2 ATTEMPT TO GET JAPANESE SURRENDER (Cont'd) Sierra Madre Mts, Rizal Prov, Luzon, PI 15-22 Aug 1945 (Cont'd) vs, prisoners eating as soldiers and MPs who captured them look on. LS, Japanese prisoners, some smiling, walk along road escorted by MPs. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY FB/es Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities