Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. OUR JOB IN JAPAN

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. OUR JOB IN JAPAN

1946

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Reel 1, Gen. MacArthur presides at the Japanese surrender aboard the Missouri. Shows a Japanese banzai charge, atrocity victims, Japanese babies, children in school, tanks and infantry parading, and dances and religious rites performed at a Shinto shrine. Dramatizes the departure of ancient Samurai for war. Japanese are told they were created to rule the world. Reel 2 shows a banzai charge, Japanese troops advancing through a rubbled Chinese village, U.S. wounded, abandoned Japanese war plants, grounded Japanese planes, and U.S. occupation forces. A soldier converses with a Japanese child. U.S. troops conduct a rodeo. Japanese war criminals are tried. Hirohito is proclaimed to be mortal. Flashbacks show U.S. troops in a Japanese prison, U.S. wounded being treated, and U.S. corpses washed up on a Pacific beach.

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MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964

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General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the ...

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