Surrender In The Pacific: a Short film that shows the surrender of Japan

[johnbr]

Timestamps:
Beginning to 1:40 - US troops land at Tokyo, wreckage of Japanese cities
2:40 - Tojo shoots self, is saved by American blood donor
3:00 - Atomic strikes and aftermath
4:30 - Surrender of Yokosuka Naval Base and decrepit battleship Nagato
4:47 - Field full of Ka-Chi amphibious tanks
4:51 - Anti-tank and artillery pieces, the wide-barreled guns in the background are 203 mm rocket launches
4:54 - Long-barreled 120 mm Chi-Ha gun carriage ("Waffen-traeger")
4:57 - Ohka suicide rocket
5:05 - General MacArthur arrives at Atsugi Airfield on his transport, "Bataan," amid the wreckage of Japanese aircraft
6:08 - Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri
10:00 - Japanese surrender on Cebu Island, Philippines
10:40 - General Yamashita surrenders at Baguio, Luzon
11:51 - Surrender of Marcus Island by Jap RADM aboard USS Bagley (DD-386)
11:57 - Reclaiming of Wake Island, complete with wrecks of original Wildcat fighters left over from the 1941 stand
12:58 - Surrender of Singapore
13:20 - British land at Hong Kong, meet minor resistance from Japanese holdouts, who are all eventually killed or surrender
14:14 - Surrender of General Okamura and the China Expeditionary Army at the Chinese Military Academy in Nanjing
14:36 - Shanghai is liberated
15:01 - Liberation of South Korea, Japanese surrender in Governor's Palace at Seoul
16:02 - Liberation of Allied POWs
16:34 - Japanese POW camp, more footage of emaciated and tortured prisoners. The conditions are compared to Buchenwald and Belsen
17:27 - Repatriation of Allied POWs
18:11 - Planes swarm over Tokyo Bay as MacArthur's speech closes out the video

 

[Gnomey]

Good one!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Zipper730]

It's ironic that we would save Tojo only so he could be tried and executed. I was recently watching a documentary on Ted Bundy where he said he was going to kill himself rather than sit in the electric chair (drive a pen into his femoral artery).

An FBI profiler (Bill Hagmeier) managed to talk him out of it. I'm surprised he didn't say "go for it -- you're going to die anyway".

 

[tyrodtom]

It's ironic that we would save Tojo only so he could be tried and executed. I was recently watching a documentary on Ted Bundy where he said he was going to kill himself rather than sit in the electric chair (drive a pen into his femoral artery).

An FBI profiler (Bill Hagmeier) managed to talk him out of it. I'm surprised he didn't say "go for it -- you're going to die anyway".

Ted Bundy was all talk.
When the dying time actually came, he cried like a little girl.

 

[Zipper730]

Ted Bundy was all talk. When the dying time actually came, he cried like a little girl.

Actually he almost passed out and had to be carried into the chair. After a short period of time, he regained his composure, and then said "let's go" or something like that.

Still, I just find it strange that you'd save the life of a person you were planning to execute. I think we basically went after Tojo because if we went after Hirohito, the shit would have hit the fan.

 

[tyrodtom]

Actually he almost passed out and had to be carried into the chair. After a short period of time, he regained his composure, and then said "let's go" or something like that.

Still, I just find it strange that you'd save the life of a person you were planning to execute. I think we basically went after Tojo because if we went after Hirohito, the shit would have hit the fan.

No, he spent the night before weeping and praying with a priest.
Don't try to defend the POS.

He murdered who knows exactly how many helpless women, ended their life at his preference.
He lost the right to choose when and how he died.
A little bit of justice in making him wait to die on someone else's schedule.

 

[Zipper730]

No, he spent the night before weeping and praying with a priest.

Is this the video you're talking about?

 

[tyrodtom]

Is this the video you're talking about?

I don't get my history from videos.