Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 12]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 12]

1945

Part 1 shows ruins in Tokyo caused by B-29 bombing raids, Japanese kneeling outside the Imperial Palace, and the liberation of U.S. prisoners at Ofuni camp outside the city. Part 2, Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu and Gen. Omazu come aboard the battleship Missouri and sign surrender documents. Gens. Doolittle, Wainwright, and Percival, Adms. Nimitz, Halsey, and Sherman, and other Allied officers look on. President Truman discusses the surrender.

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