JAPANESE SURRENDER ON BOARD USS MISSOURI Part 1

Description

Summary: MD, USS Missouri at bay. (Scratched). MSs, Admiral Perry's old flag aboard ship. VS, Adm William F Halsey and Adm Chester A Nimitz greeting officers. VS, press and radio correspondents. LS, Gen Douglas MacArthur and Adm Nimitz, followed by Adm Halsey approach surrender table. Seq: High-ranking officers from the USA, England, France, Russia, and China, lined up. Japanese envoys boarding ship. MSs, Japanese official arrive: Wearing top hat, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Foreign Minister; Katsuo Okazaki, Central Liaison office; Gen Yoshijiro Umezo; Rear Adm Todatoshi Tomioka, Naval General Hq; Shunichi Kase, Govt Info Bureau (top hat); and Lt Gen Shuichi Miyakazi, Army-General HQ. The men present their credentials. CU, table on which surrender documents are displayed. MSs, profile view, Russian Lt Gen Kuzma Derevyanko, Austrialian Gen Sir Thomas Blamey, Canadian Col L Moore-Cosgrave signing surrender documents and handing pen to Gen MacArthur, back to camera.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities