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Witness Douglas MacArthur offering surrender terms to imperial Japan aboard the battleship USS Missouri

Witness Douglas MacArthur offering surrender terms to imperial Japan aboard the battleship USS Missouri
Witness Douglas MacArthur offering surrender terms to imperial Japan aboard the battleship USS Missouri
On the deck of the battleship USS Missouri, Gen. Douglas MacArthur inviting representatives of Japan to sign the terms of surrender that would formally end World War II. From The Second World War: Allied Victory (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Transcript

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NARRATOR: At nine o'clock on Sunday, September 2nd, 1945, the surrender was taken by General MacArthur on the decks of the battleship "Missouri" in Tokyo Bay.

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MACARTHUR: The issues involving divergent ideals and ideologies have been determined on the battlefields of the world--and hence, are not for our discussion or debate. I now invite the representatives of the Emperor of Japan, and the Japanese Government, and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, to sign the instrument of surrender at the places indicated.
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