Allied Forces Land In Japan (1945)

[@terrencejohnson85]

Can you image the joy that soldiers felt, knowing that they weren’t going to die attacking Japan!

[@zachboyd4749]

That was the justification for using Little Boy and Fat Man. Ironically, they saved more lives than they took....

[@lowerbird696]

@@zachboyd4749 They saved US lives. Back in those days, during the war, thats what matterd

[@sirboomsalot4902]

@@lowerbird696Japanese lives too. The official Japanese name for their plan to defend the home islands was literally called “The Sacrifice of the Ten Million”

[@dynamo3590]

🫡 🇰🇷 🤝 🇺🇸 🫡

[@davidslott]

The end of all the death. Imagine the feelings of the Americans--the war finally over and the Japanese submit. A great but surreal moment. My father in law had been a POW in Japan for almost 3 and a half years. He was Dutch, and very glad to see American troops.

[@RobTheNotary]

davidL I bet he was. I met Louis Zamperini from the movie unbroken

[@Straycat733]

Boy I bet he was

[@rr_snsfhrase]

Bet that your dad was in Indonesia once

[@atomic0894]

Raihan R it must be

[@jscottupton]

My FATHER was also a POW in Japan for that length of time. Had we INVADED the main island of Japan there were standing Japanese written orders that all POWs being held in Japan would be immediately executed. Fortunately we had the A bomb and an invasion was not necessary.

[@coleparker]

My father was on board on one of the first ships to enter Yokohama harbor. There is a picture of him standing next to two armed Japanese Sailors on a pier.

[@northsonny]

My father also was stationed in Yokahama as an MP.

[@mikeletterst9882]

My father was gay and he met his Japanese lover there

[@michielstam1971]

@@mikeletterst9882 Did your mom know about your father his lover? Or did your father and his lover adopt you? What happened? Was it a Japanese lover or American. I dont think you are joking. Tell the whole story!

[@mikeletterst9882]

@@michielstam1971 😂 it was obviously a joke

[@strfltcmnd.9925]

The biggest irony of the Pacific war was that the Atomic bombs used on Japan saved more lives than they took. Every WW2 veteran i ever knew to a man felt that Harry made the right decision.

[@MrRinoHunter]

Every Korean, Chinese I ever met also feels the same way

[@Raider66ify]

Filipino too!

[@akhyarkhairansyah]

Indonesian Feel The Same Too Because The Atomic Bomb We Can Break Free From The Japanese

[@brianrajala7671]

The dropping of the bombs, as ordered by Truman cannot be questioned. He made the decision based upon what was known at the time. But, the world needs to learn from mistakes. Aggressor Nations, Russia and China need to back off.

[@Dhshevhsusjzns]

Well, it's still sad that innocent civilians died, but I you're right

[@garyteague9555]

as cruel as the japanese were to us in the prison camps it makes me shudder to think how we would have been treated had they won

[@scottrobinson2286]

Nanking invasion same thing would of happened

[@Mike-01234]

Watch the TV series on Amazon "Man in the high castle" shows you what world be like if Japan, and Germany won. Sure hit a cord with me watching it I found myself watching the atomic bombing of Japan after the season was over. Japan or Germany never had the capability to attack North America it was just too far away at the start of the war. Due to the fact that America was able to produce massive quantity of military arms without any worry of bombing was big advantage. In the TV show it is depicted Germany some how got the Atomic bomb first what lead them to winning.

[@None-zc5vg]

In a way, they did win: the Americans ensured that only a handful of the top people in both countries faced any justice: the real interests that were behind the war, the industrialists and bankers, were left alone and were soon active again with U.S. help, becoming economic and industrial powerhouses so that they could kick the debt-ridden British into touch and dismantle their empire, which was a U.S. goal all along.

[@larrytischler570]

Any one that can defeat us will do exactly the same. They resent being out classed.

[@janholm8535]

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[@redbay8527]

My father was in Europe during WWII, and I thought I knew a lot about what happened. But, I never knew this is how Americans entered Japan. I'm thankful I saw this....and glad to see we made a strong military entry.

[@mikesnyder1788]

The 11th Airborne is the same group that rescued my father, and 2,100 other prisoners, from the Los Banos Internment Camp (south of Manila) on February 23, 1945. I wish I had known this fact years ago when I could have attended their meetings and thanked them personally. Honor. Respect. Remembrance.

[@oogdiver]

The 11th’s relief of Los Banos is the textbook example of an airborne operation.

[@mikesnyder1788]

@@oogdiver Yes, an amazing rescue! And they had so little time to prepare for it.

[@DavidS-iw4ei]

My Dad made that jump on Feb 23rd 1945. 511th PIR.

[@topgeardel]

Man, those were heady days. What it took for ALL of America (home & abroad) to get to that point from Dec 7, 41 is almost a miracle.

[@mausbmeme1077]

I mean the Japanese were strong in 1941 soo

[@montbrehain]

It says Allied, typical yank ! Nobody else was there ... done it all by them themselves....

[@topgeardel]

@@montbrehain I know Americans didn't do it "all" by themselves. But the Allies pretty much capitulated very early in the war. I would say the US did about 90% of the heavy lifting in the Pacific. How's that?

[@montbrehain]

@@topgeardel yep ! 100%.don't know about capitulated? But There's no way the war in the Pacific would ever have been won without the USA... but sometimes they do tend to forget their allies ...

[@topgeardel]

@@montbrehain I'm thinking of the British naval losses (Prince of Wales, Repulse) which were incredible, they gave up Singapore easily, a huge loss. The Dutch and British were playing basically 'hide and seek" games with Japan. If the US depended on anyone....it was the Australians. The US was able to conduct a lot of submarine warfare and other support for that war.

[@davidh9844]

WOW! A part of the story never spoken of. My father was on Tinian in August 1945. He never really spoke of those days. He was an officer, 1st Lieutenant, B25 navigator, who owed his life to the atomic bombings. He was sent to Japan shortly thereafter, I don't know the dates, we have pictures of Hiroshima in the family picture albums. He was one of the last to leave Japan because of his officer status. My parents got married in June 1946, so he had to have gotten back to the States sometime in the Spring of '46. He always spoke highly of the Japanese, how wonderful they were as people, and so unlike the propaganda pictures he had lived with for 5 years. Those were horrible, unspeakable years. And yet, in the end, it turned out well. God bless the memory of President Truman. I, and my brother, both owe our lives to that man.

[@BushPilot444]

You are right on the money. I had a Japanese-American friend growing up when I was very young. He went on to be president of the student body at Ohio State. I can remember his father was old school and very strict but very upright and polite. My father had vouched for them to keep them out of the camps and working for him. Had we lived on the west coast that may not have worked.

[@jameshickok2349]

Literally millions of people owe a thank you to Pres. Truman.

[@coleparker]

My father was on one of the first ships that sailed into Yokohama Harbor in 1945. He also told me and my brothers how they drove into the Hiroshima ruins. He said it was unbelievable and hard to describe to anyone who had never seen it.

[@freddyflintstoned913]

My father was in the army and had just defeated the germans. The bomb saved his life.

[@seanjacobdeguzman9813]

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[@skipsassy1]

Not all Americans came to Japan. A lot were killed folks. A lot.

[@lindainglis8506]

SassyHershsey SassyHershey And we will never forget Japanese atrocities. Never.

[@patrickrobinson317]

@Elizabeth Brower - God Bless you and your brave father.

[@jenniferlarson6426]

Thank Christ it ended. What a bloodbath that was.

[@whiteriot]

@@lindainglis8506 We wont forget your atomic bomb massacre

[@maku8075]

@@whiteriot atom bomb wouldn't have happened if Japan didn't bomb Hawaii.

[@1FatHappyBirthday]

Pure history right there! This video can never be lost!

[@gpcox9340]

My father, Everett "Smitty" Smith of the HQ Company/187th/11th Airborne, was on General Swing's staff and was one of the first to land at Atsugi. I thank the Signal Corps cameramen for making this tape for everyone to see now and in the future!

[@7777Scion]

Yes, the Japanese "just stared." Not a surprise. Btw, the Allies were not exactly loved in Germany at first, either. It wasn't until 1947 that Germans really began to appreciate the food & stores to get over the starvation hump. As the Marshall Plan began to take effect and Germany de-Nazified, the strong friendship between the U.S-Germany began in earnest.

[@Rikki0]

3:26 I know it's spelled Yokosuka, but it's pronounced "Yokooska". I've been there several times.

[@stephenarling1667]

Guess the occupiers didn't care. They made their point.

[@daviddavis5689]

We had a family friend who was first on mine sweeper to enter Tokyo bay .He said it was spooky as they didn't know what to expect with history of Japanese military.

[@jbizzle1966]

My grandfather J.P. MARTIN Sr was aboard the MISSOURI in Tokyo bay when the surrender was signed and was among the first US Navy personnel to come ashore at Yokosuka.

[@thomasmaloney843]

Dad was thrilled that he did not have to invade the place. He was supposed to have been in the second wave of Operation Olympic set for November 1945.

[@TheBandit7613]

I had no idea the military went into Japan putting American flags on everything that moved and even did amphibious landings. I'm glad things worked out well in the end.

[@reedsilvesan2197]

this is what every man in that theater fought bled and some died for This Moment In Time

[@Danogil]

My Father may have been in this film. 11Th AB Div 1945-1947.

[@barryklus]

My father was there also. 3rd Army. (after Germany)

[@speedwayaudio3]

Mine too. He was 18 years old. He died long ago so I never got any stories.

[@joereyna3992]

My father also occupied Japan.

[@scottandrysik7924]

Yeah,my dad too. A " seahorse" marine off the Massachusetts BB59. Stationed in Yokohama until 1946.I have a mother's day card he sent to my grandmother in 1944. I found it in his fishing tackle box... It tore me up, I could not equate that note,from a scared young man,not knowing if the war would ever end or if he would ever see home again, with my pop. In it he said he would never ever leave his mother again. And he never did... We are from that generation of men whose father was their hero,not some rich sport or movie star... Just wanted to share that with you`s.

[@OrieCipollaro]

My pop was on Saipan

[@blackhorse2947]

My late father in law was with the 11th Airborne in Japan at that time. Later with the 101st Airborne in Korea

[@wccroft50]

shocked there are ANY negatives. The Japanese were brutal during WWII. Thank GOD the war ended. If it were not for the atomic bomb, we would have lost over 1 million men!

[@basilbrush8620]

Not true - the japanese actually WANTED to surrender but the Americans did not want this = the bomb was dropped for other reasons - not to end the war - and the funny thing is LESS Americans worked on producing the bomb than British - but the Amercians screwed the British while up until the very LAST 6 months of the war the British actually had more men on the ground, more planes in the sky and warships at sea actually FIGHTING the enemy and that is in ALL the theartres of combat!

[@stevenweaver3386]

Basil, you are partly correct. There was a peace faction made up of the civilians on the Imperial Cabinet. They quietly made a conditional surrender proposal that there would be no occupation, no war crime or crime against humanity trials, and Japan got to keep their prewar territories. The Army and Navy members of the cabinet, who held the real power, would accept no surrender. The civilians had to be careful, because the military had no civilian oversite, and murdered politicians in the 1930's who tried to stop their incursions into China. The Potsdam Declaration issued by the Allies insisted on an unconditional surrender, period.

[@marcialancaster2106]

My Dad was on the USS South Dakota with the other battleships with the USS Missouri. The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.

[@jameshickok2349]

A little side story on the South Dakota from a crew member. The crew cleaned and spot shined their ship because it was rumored the So. Dakota would host the surrender signing. Reason being the So.Dakota had more Battle Stars than any other battleship. Personally I believe the ceremony should have been on one of the Pearl Harbor attack survivors. Seems a very appropriate idea to me. But MacArthur wanted to play politics and selected Missouri since Pres. Truman was from MO.

[@charlesjones4350]

Next time pick your enemies real careful before you decide to drop a bomb on them cuz the sleeping giant will wake with a piercing Roar.

[@ffffuchs]

next time learn some history before releasing your half-educated and ignorant opinion

[@philipt7150]

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[@user-qi6tp1te1y]

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[@LexPips]

@ Charles Jones Huh? Wasn’t it Fascist Japan who started war in the Pacific? It was therefore Japan who awoke a “sleeping lion” in the US!

[@garrysomers849]

What if the us is no longer the giant it was, and its people no longer United, and its war is with itself. I can tell you that's what it looks like from here.

[@davekkik2258]

little did they know those japanese trucks were the vanguard of the conquest of the us auto industry

[@Awestom]

Music at about 2:00 sounds straight out of a scene with The Empire in Star Wars

[@coleparker]

My Father was on one of the first ships to sail into Yokahama. He has picture of himself standing next to Japanese Navy security guard who was still armed.

[@tonydee2069]

WOW ! how did I not find this sooner! My father would have loved to watch this, he just died in March '19, 99 and 4 months old. His LST was already unloading telephone company equipment on a beach at Hiroshima. When empty, his and the other LST's stayed beached there. So the crews were 'volunteered' to help the Japanese civilians root around thru all that white ash and find anything that might be useful to them making a home again. Seems none of these +/-500 sailors EVER died of a cancer, everything else, yes. So his body is still being researched as I type this. It seemed the Japanese civilians and enlisted men were not very bothered by the allied occupation, some even seemed pleased. We can only wonder the oppressive social system they had for centuries.

[@dvdcnly]

the japanese civilians were probably glad the war was over..no more bombings.

[@RoadTripzz14]

As I understand Japan’s maniacal “warrior” class were the major driving force in its actions. This group were so nuts they STILL did not want to surrender after we justifiably dropped atomic bombs. Maybe the civilians and enlisted were just happy the madness ended.

[@trimule]

Why are the Marines landing at Yokosuka (5:48) still carrying 1903 Springfield rifles? I know thweMarines always claimed they got "hind tit" on supplies and were last to get M-1's, but 1945 and they are still carrying WW I rifles? (I know some were used as sniper rifles but these guys all have them)

[@northwestprof60]

My dad was in the 49th FG, 8th FS and they occupied Atsugi from the end of the war into 1946. It was two P-38 pilots from this group who were the first to land on the Japanese mainland--much to some of the upper brass' annoyance.

[@deaustin4018]

LT Bud Smith to MacArthur just prior to the surrender ceremonies - "Will you take a motor launch out to the Missouri, sir, or will you walk?"

[@sid2112]

Lol nice burn.

[@jeremycholm]

That's hilarious, do you have a reference for that?

[@None-zc5vg]

Given his ego and his publicity machine, he might well have walked.

[@TXRBL]

My father was home on his first leave in three years. From 42 to 45 he island hopped and didn't have to travel back. I can't image his incredible joy. Semper Fi to all Marines, Navy, and Army for conducting operations that today would be been unheard of. They were tough. Incredibly tough.

[@gk10002000]

One of my Uncles was stationed in Japan with the occupational forces. One of my old landlord's husband was a photographer and stationed there for a while also. I was in the Air Force when I knew this guy so he would see me in my uniform when I would get home from work and he would run out to chat. One of my great uncles was a seargent and landed on Omaha beach. Big old Uncle Nick. My Dad joined in June of 45 when he turned 18. He trained as a landing craft driver and was literally boarding the ship to transit to Japan for the Japan mainland preparations when the war ended.

[@popj-xg4to]

Operation Ichi-Go is an operation conducted by the Japanese Army on the Chinese mainland from April 17th to December 10th, 1944 during the Sino-Japanese War. It was the last major offensive of the Japanese Army, which caused the National Revolutionary Army to be hit hard and affected during the Chinese Civil War. However, on the other hand, the United States is also mediating the conclusion of the Double Tenth Agreement with Chiang Kai-shek in order to avoid a civil war. According to a study by Barbara W. Tuchman, the results of this operation had a more significant impact on the subsequent war situation than the Japanese had imagined, and had a decisive impact on Japan's fate. According to it, Franklin Roosevelt has consistently strongly trusted and supported Chiang Kai-shek since the beginning of the war, and encouraged him in the war against Japan so that he would not drop out of the Allies in a single peace with Japan during the Cairo Conference. However, he said that he changed his mind because the front of Chiang Kai-shek collapsed due to this operation. In fact, Chiang Kai-shek has not been invited to important Allied conferences ("Yalta Conference" and "Potsdam Conference") since then. According to the Stilwell document, Roosevelt said, "Can China win?" Stilwell said, "There is no choice but to eliminate Chiang Kai-shek." During the 1944 Hengyang battle, he could not sleep at night and twice. He says he thought about suicide. The American side also planned to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek, and three methods of "poisoning", "aircraft incident", and "pretending to be suicide" were considered, but it was canceled in 1944 due to changes in the international situation such as Burma. The successor that the United States envisioned is Sun Fountain. As Roosevelt's Chief of Staff George Marshall and General Joseph Stilwell have long insisted, Chiang Kai-shek's army is actually a demoralized and corrupt organization that does not form an army. It became clear that he had no desire or ability to fight with the United States and other Allied forces. As a result, President Roosevelt changed the scenario of the operation against Japan from the conventional bombing of Japan and other countries from the air bases of mainland China to the one that MacArthur and others claimed to occupy the islands of the Pacific Ocean one after another. China was dismissed at the Yalta Conference, and the Allied nation's footsteps were disturbed, with angry Chiang Kai-shek presenting a peace plan to Japan against the will of the United States. In the Japan-US negotiations, Japan's allegations were peace by the confluence of Wang Jingwei of the Nanjing government and Chiang Kai-shek of the Chongqing government, and a proposal for defense from communism jointly by Japan and China. The US allegation was the withdrawal of Japanese troops from China, admitting only the Chongqing government. The negotiations broke down and the United States stopped oil, resulting in a war between Japan and the United States. The Japanese Operation Ichi-Go attack left the National Revolutionary Army with 750,000 casualties. This caused the Kuomintang to lose to the Communist Party in the civil war. China would not have been dominated by the dictatorship Communist Party if it had made peace with Japan and cooperated in protecting it from communism.

[@charles1964]

Yeah that "OIl" part there is a bit of revisionist nonsense that is so prevalent on this forum. The US Embargo of Oil and Iron was a direct result of Japan signing The Tri-Partite Pact and Invading Hainan, Tonkin, and other 2nd Republic Protectorates. Anything happening subsequently in China became secondary causes after The Chrysanthemum Throne Joined the Axis. Don't forget, Japan had already signed Their Own Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin in April of '41 - All this "The US Forced Japan into War" is Utter Trash

[@apocalypseblues3897]

when did the pronunciation of allied change?

[@davidpotter3777]

This should be a 2 hour movie ! God bless you and your family Aloha

[@bobwarzin5492]

I was thinking the same thing. Of all the WWII footage I have seen, I have never seen these film clips. I am sure there are a lot of personal stories both on the Allies and Japanese sides

[@bowrudder899]

I am so glad we are on the same side now.

[@米空軍パイロット]

@Marry Christmas Actually, they do now. They choose to stay with us.

[@davekkik2258]

iam really happy with my toyota corolla unlike ford it never brakes down

[@GenghisKhan-Shaman]

The Japanese are NEVER on anyone's 'side' but their own!!

[@zepter00]

GenghisnKhan.. That’s why They have so many american military bases and instalations on their reritory and buy american weapon, fighters etc.

[@allgoo1964]

@Marry Christmas says: "Japan does not have a choice in the matter. US dictates Japan's foreign policy." == aka, lap dog.

[@tryithere]

Thinking about it, it should have been one of the battleships sunk at Pearl Harbor that the Japanese surrendered on instead of The Missouri.

[@tryithere]

***** It was originally supposed to be The New Jersey because it was the most decorated battleship but they changed it because of Truman.

[@jameshickok2349]

@@tryithere Half true but it was the USS South Dakota that had the most battle stars. Even the crew was under the belief but MacArthur decided to play politics with Pres Truman.

[@kelvinktfong]

James Hickok South Dakota served as Nimitz’s flagship while he was in Japan

[@stevepowsinger733]

The Missouri as Truman’s state was the ploy no doubt.

[@stevepowsinger733]

And the Missouri was not commissioned until 1944, one of the new fast battleships Iowa class.

[@davidbarnett9312]

According to the Pacific War series I saw on Smithsonian channel, Macarthur did not allow US troops to have bullets in their weapons when they entered Japan. This was done in order to avoid an incident. Since I wasn't there, I'll have to take the word of the narrator of the documentary.

[@JasonHenson1975]

at 6:16 a guy almost falls down the gangplank LOL

[@bertiewooster3326]

Well he was on a trip to Japan!

[@edwardhoops6197]

My dad was CFC on Flak Magnet in Tinian during WW2 and participated in many of the firebomb raids. He became a career NCO and we lived in the Tokyo area in several locations. The last place was Green Park Military Housing, a huge complex , fully self contained housing 720 families. It had been an airplane factory and so overbuilt that it survived intense bombing relatively intact. So we ended up living in a place my dad and the Air Corps tried to destroy.

[@libertyprime4280]

Very interesting

[@kevinwhitehead6076]

An elderly friend of mine who was a gunnery sergeant in the marines, told me that many more Japanese tried to surrender than got to. He made three landings and was wounded twice. The animosity towards the Japanese soldiers was quite strong.

[@bmccollneb1]

I google no answer. What became of United News?

[@stephenarling1667]

Here www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2015/fall/united-newsreels.html

[@mistervacation23]

In some underground cave somewhere are a bunch of B-17s being guarded by elderly Japanese soldiers who think the war is still going on.

[@peterfmodel]

Very interesting news reel.

[@ojofelixnm3608]

As a school kid, I remember doing without during WW II. Everything was rationed and food stamps were necessary to purchase most everything. A bag of pinto beans was hard to come by even though they were grown a few miles away. It took me years to get over hating the Japanese. I purchased the first Toyota Corona model in 1967. Quality was far above what the Big Three were turning out. Toyotas or Hondas ever since.Times change.

[@gk10002000]

My uncle was part of the USA occupation forces. He never spoke about the war much. My Dad, his younger brother, was in the Navy and trained as a landing craft driver. My dad finished training, transited the Panama Canal and was in California getting ready to head towards Japan to support the invasion of Japan. Lucky for him, the war ended literally two days after they had set sail! His ship turned around and Dad hung out in California for a while. One of my Great Uncles was a seargent and landed at Normandy. That's just what those generations did.

[@jameshickok2349]

@Peter Michalski I worked with two guys who were in final stages of Airborne training when Japan surrendered. One said they were told up front their life expectancy was 5 minutes from landing. Japan was an armed fortress. If we thought Okinawa was bad, we hadn't seen nothing yet. The crazy loons who blabble about the A bomb are brain-dead. The death toll without the A bomb would've been in the millions.

[@mh53j]

Peter Michalski I always wonder how they think the Russians were going to invade with very few, if any, ships to launch an amphibious assault of the scale needed to invade Japan. How many carriers, battleships and landing craft did the Russians have to support this? Don't think they could walk on water. It's mind numbing, the moronic comments made by the "military scholars" and "history experts" that troll here. I get so sick of the "only defenseless women, children and old men" in the cities that were bombed, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were "war crimes". Where does this shit come from?

If only there'd had the same occupation plan for Iraq! Leave the lower ranks to do their jobs and just replace the high command decision makers.

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

Angel Mcfadden Wouldn’t work there. Culture.

[@Baltic_Hammer6162]

General Schwarzkopf understood the Arab mindset and tribal politics very well. His father was to the Middle East for quite some time and Norman would go along with his dad to meetings with Arabs. The Arab mentality is waaay different than US or European. But I really doubt anyone from GW's cabinet got Norman's input.

[@gregryan7761]

I remember staring at the ranks of thousands of Iraqi soldiers being mustered out on CNN, told they were out. I was stunned that our leaders were so inept and I knew that many of these guys would be FORCED to sell their skills to the highest bidder. If all this was so apparent to a simple dope like me, why couldn't our leaders see the same thing?

[@tripwall]

Wrong because we shouldn't have been there.

[@gregryan7761]

@@tripwall ...so after 9-11 we shouldn't have had a response? WTF kind of man are you? All good men come to the aid of their country. I guess we know where you stand.

[@laserfalcon]

My dad patrolled the streets of Hiroshima two weeks after the war ended. Got the photos to prove it.

[@RobTheNotary]

Please put them on KZbin

[@laserfalcon]

@@RobTheNotary I will work on that

[@東海道と中山道の旅人MBT]

Thanks for your up road. I am 17 years old. I am Japanese people.

[@peter455sd]

I met a man who was a survivor of the battle of Guadalcanal,he was from the first marine division,he hated the japanese till the day he died

[@johnshields6852]

Even though I was born 15 years after the end of WW11 my family and school were very patriotic and knew how many men died for our freedoms to stay intact, I could never show how much appreciation I have to those who serve. Thank you and thank God. 🙏🇺🇲

[@giulioespositi9052]

Please: have the decency not to mix your "God" with the "epic" authentic-massacres of Japanese civilian-people

[@donkey459]

WW11 🤔

[@travelsofmunch1476]

5:53, GI faceplants into water 6:15, Naval Officer trips on gangway

[@nev7711]

People today, who don't understand why the atomic bombs were dropped need to study this as part of their education. An organised surrender, that minimised suffering.

[@williamc.1198]

My later Father-in Law was a BM2c on the USS Nevada during the Pearl Harbor attack. The Nevada was present in Tokyo Bay during the surrender of Japan. I've always thought it would have been appropriate for the surrender to have been held on the deck of the Nevada, vice the Missouri. I suspect the ceremony was held on the Missouri as Missouri was the home state of President Truman.

[@borod5571]

My Grandfather Manuel '' Manny '' Rodriguez was there in the USMC. I remember telling about this, i glad to find this, R.i.p PaPa

[@jack60091]

I was born June 1945. My father was a Navy seaman who was at Pearl Harbor. He was transferred to San Francisco in 1944. He was at Great Lakes when this film was made.

[@oldfart3137]

Surrender of Japan announced August 1945, signed in September, and UN established October 1945. Narrator says, at 5:53, US took possession of a naval base in the name of the UN. What's up with that??

[@conveyor2]

The term "United Nations" started with the 1942 "Declaration of United Nations".

[@heresclowny5115]

This must of been terrifying for them total surrender

[@sandplus5048]

McArthur is the biggest coward. When times are tough and his troops being defeated, he left the battle field, go home, and let our young boys slug it out. Later when things get better, he returns and say “see, I’d told you I would return !” He took all the credit of the soldiers who died for him. What an asshole.” Our soldiers fought with their lives, McArthur fought with his cigars and pipe.

[@sandplus5048]

Henry Gourlay Don’t give me the b.s.. my son has been flying with the Air Force for a few years now so don’t ask me those stupid questions.

[@fides249]

Sandro Lee, You do not know the greatest general in US military history. You need to read more historical accounts about him. General George Patton, one of the bravest US general of World War II would disagree with you for calling MacArthur as the biggest coward. He served under MacArthur in World War I in Europe and experienced MacArthur’s bravery, calling him the bravest man he ever met. Did you know that he never wanted to leave his men in Corregidor but as a military man has to follow the order of his superior who ordered him to escape to Australia since the Philippine war operations were a lost cause because Europe war operations takes priority?

[@TexWatson-sh8vf]

Truman made the right choice. In the immortal words of Ozzy Osborne " Thank God for the bomb "

[@donfarlan214]

Of course if youe enemas had the bomb then its satans bomb

[@rustynails6626]

the tension of those first landing would be incredible. there would be extreme distrust towards the Japanese after pearl harbor. the idea of this being a trap would be paramount in the minds of everyone.

[@attempt5074]

The Japanese were lucky that it wasn't the Chinese who won the war. It would be Nanjing 2.0 in Tokyo.

[@ruuuuudooooolph]

6:17 watch your step now :D

[@josephbingham1255]

"300,000 troops were in the area of the air field but have all been disarmed and removed" this was BEFORE the U.S. paratroopers arrived. Did the Japanese do it themselves or were there advance personnel that made sure this was done to avoid conflict?

[@rogerwilcoshirley2270]

They were very fortunate to have been defeated by the US rather than Russia or China, they chose their enemy wisely ;-) A horrible war won amazingly quickly by some of the best commanders America has been fortunate to have ( Admirals Halsey, Spruance, Nimitz, King, and Leahy). But a call out also for all the Americans who supported the effort and mobilized the industrial base in one huge national project and that includes all our Black brothers and sisters. who played an especially important roll in helping to build nearly 6 THOUSAND ships during those years. Phenomenal effort by all - no sheltering in place or fretful social distancing in those days it was all hands on deck damn the torpedos and damn the waves of epidemics that receded into insignificance in that fight for national survival.

[@joserizal1158]

I was stationed at US Naval Air Facility in Atsugi, Japan in 1972-1976 and 1986-1989 when I was in the US Navy and retired 21 years of service ☺

[@user-qi6tp1te1y]

Thank you for your services

[@simonyip5978]

Judging by the way that so many Japanese troops refused to surrender in places like Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Burma, Guadalcanal etc and fought on after the end of the main fighting, I wonder how many Japanese troops escaped to the hill's and forests and mountains of Japan to carry on the fight. I don't think that the allies would have publicised the resistance attacks in case other Japanese also decided to resist the occupation. If you imagine how much weaponry and military equipment could have been hidden and how many of the 100 million Japanese people would have been only too willing to rid their country from occupation?

[@MercedesE63S-AMG]

If it wasnt for the nuclear bombs it would have been a nightmare invading Japan to take them down.

[@basilbrush8620]

jAPANE HAD BEEN wanting TO SURRENDER - THE REASON - THE russians WERE COMING AND THEY DIDNT WANT THAT to happen - so they put out peace feelers which the Americans ignored because THEY wanted to sjhow the world that THEY were the power now - no better really than Germany or Japan in that regard - more humane but not more willing to give

[@stevenweaver3386]

You are somewhat mistaken, Basil. The Soviet attack on Manchuria came as a surprise. There was a year left in the peace treaty signed after the disastrous Khalkhin Gol battles in 1939. The civilian peace faction had hoped the Soviets could be an intermediary between them and the Americans. Too, after the Potsdam Declaration was released insisting only unconditional surrender was acceptable, the peace faction made a counterproposal that there would be no occupation, no war crimes trials, and Japan only had to withdraw from countries occupied since 1937.

[@catherinelw9365]

@@basilbrush8620 The Russians had no means to invade Japan, moron. No navy. God, you’re an idiot. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@Sq12Sq22u22]

@@catherinelw9365 Actually they DID have a nbavy and a pretty strong one too, obvious you dont research any thing.

[@catherinelw9365]

@@Sq12Sq22u22 No they did not. No radar. No aircraft carriers. You’re an ignorant fool.

[@PISQUEFrancis]

The Japanese were very lucky regarding the terms of surrender ....

[@conveyor2]

Yes and even managed to keep the Imperial system with the same Emperor. Japan itself stayed intact politically and soon after the occupation began was coddled. Germany got treated somewhat differently.

[@zelphx]

We won the war, they won the peace.

[@rexhunt4695]

My Dad was in the Navy when they landed on the beach.. he said if they had invaded he would have come home in a box

[@basilbrush8620]

not all were short

[@lucianprescott8357]

Japan was extremely lucky to be still in existence. If we had a dozen atomic bombs, we’d have used them on a weekly basis. If we had a third bomb, it would have been used on Tokyo. Japan would have become like so many other countries that no longer exist.

[@PeterNebelung]

Odd that some of those planes at Atsugi have their propellers. Removing was part of the surrender agreement

[@Joe-J-2009]

Damn! I wish I were there on that day to witness this chilling moment.

[@nickirmen6671]

Those soldiers on the Nagato look so young and tired, they probably had orders originally to never let it fall into enemy hands, but they did the right thing and surrendered.

[@ConwayTruckload]

Isn't it funny how all the people who have bad things to say are from some communist/socialist country? LOL

[@warrenangub7729]

true.

[@lindanwfirefighter4973]

ConwayTruckload um USA started the war with Japan not the other way around!

[@joseph4301]

Richard clarke nope,Japan started it

[@davidgoldin5759]

USA sneakily attacked the Japanese planes peacefully flying over Pearl Harbor.

[@davidgoldin5759]

Kinda obtuse aren't you Little 'Bill.

[@fenwaypark1725]

Hard to believe Raymond Burr in 1956 was in Godzilla King of the Monsters. That’s what I call reaching across the table.

[@dbergerac9632]

His scenes were spliced in so that it could sell in America.

[@surajkumarguptapatnabihar7641]

Thanks

[@eebnamtna]

poor guys..... read a statement by ww2 vet that said in effect.... Allied troop liberating Europe were met with cheering crowds, victory parades, flowers, food, wine, kisses, partying, boinking..... the troops in Asia.......the people just stared at them:)

[@imnotgood15aka.notgood21]

Well yeah.

[@outdoorfreedom9778]

My father fought through the Pacific with the 1st Cav then occupied Japan. I was never able to understand how he was able to love the Japanese people the way he did???

[@markcary5928]

It's the Japanese government that not loved. He loved was the original Japanese people he loved.

[@bbvollmer]

@@RudolfHillers not really, the bombs helped end the war sooner but thats about it.... the war was lost for Japan long before 1945... it was only a matter of time

[@robertoorsi5771]

Why keep the general the helmet on his haeat? Maybe is he afraid that sky may crash on himself?

[@Awestom]

Where were these American troops flooding into Japan housed initially?

[@MH5XXXX]

THEY STARTED IT. WE ENDED IT!!

[@bluemarshall6180]

Michael Homchick Oh????? And Help them a lot instead of their Brown Alies who really Stand Beside Mac and fought for America all the way. Pffft...

[@dellingson4833]

@@bluemarshall6180 you have to realize that was the demacrat=KKK days.

[@taunteratwill1787]

@@dellingson4833 you have to realize that very few dems were KKK. The KKK was 95% Reps. :-))

[@basilbrush8620]

youuuuu DID not end it at all - it seems most not all posts on here - but most - have NO idea what really happened.

[@basilbrush8620]

Seems you have NO idea and want others to tell because YOU are incapable of doing more than jerk your mouth off - why dont YOU illuminate us all with some worth while stats? I dont think you know any.@Junior Mudd

[@airzorne]

I got goosebumps when the Marine's Hymn started playing

[@threestrikesmarxman9095]

How embarrassing to be that one guy at 6:16 to trip on the gangplank on what could be the most significant day in his career, let alone his life.

[@jennylee9278]

There was an Admiral Badger? I'd love to see that.

[@jamesdarnell8568]

His flagship should have been the USS Wisconsin.

[@OTIB1]

When the Japanese signed the Instrument of Surrender on board the USS MIssouri, representatives of all Allied nations were present. However, although Britain, France, Holland, Aus & NZ plus others had troops fighting in the Pacific, the Americans refused to allow any of them to be part of the Occupation Force; that was to be purely American.

[@shinjaokinawa5122]

McArthur want a Hands off Japan and an American only Policy. It kept the Russians out.

[@davidtaylor351]

There were British, Indian, Australian and New Zealand Army Navy and Airforce units in Japan, as part of the, U.S led, occupation forces, from 1946 to late 1952. They all had forces engaged, in the fight that was closing in on Japan, right up till Japans final defeat. Which is no doubt, why the film, refers to, 'The Allies', and they were also, as you noted, present at the time of the Japanese surrender. These occupation forces were officially called, as, the Commonwealth was then referred to. 'The British Commonwealth Occupation Force'. (BCOF). Now days, of course, the Commonwealth is simply known as, The Commonwealth.

[@jamessuhr9667]

Bull shit.British Commonwealth forces occupied Kure and the Hiroshima area, and other areas.Army,Navy and Air force units took part.

[@basilbrush8620]

NOT trueat all The British landed shortly after the Amercians and Australian troopsslso participated in the occupation. Indeed in the pacific thearte more Australians fought MORE Japanese than the Americans did and the British had more cobat forces continually in contact with the Japanese than did the Americans. It was simply about post war hegemony and money - the British had slogged through and were happy to see the ending of the wat, the Americans financial screwed the British because they wanted to control post ww2.. But that got screwed up too!

[@catherinelw9365]

@@basilbrush8620 BS. Australians fought in Africa. You’re grossly misinformed, propagandist. What great victories in the Pacific did Australia win? Guadalcanal? Iwo Jima? Peleliu? Okinawa? Name some!

[@jasondaniel918]

Constant references to the United Nations. Sure, the U. N. was established in the fall of 1945. But did it actually have any authority when these landings took place?

[@kingrat2465]

Unfortunately, it did. And it was based in GayTown. AKA San Francisco.

[@deanlucas761]

In WW2 the United Nations was how the Allies described themselves. Not only the US was represented at the surrender ceremony so were the UK,Australia, French, Netherlands,New Zealand, Canada,China and USSR.

[@paddyodriscoll8648]

The height difference must have been hugely intimidating.

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

Notice how MacArthur stands at the top of the ladder to pose for everyone like, gee, if I don't stand here for a few seconds, maybe they won't recognize me? One thing I like about these videos is the number of aircraft damaged/abandoned....makes for great dioramas.

[@BushPilot444]

MacArthur was a glory hound prima donna his whole life.

[@DrJones20]

MacArthur was a sickening figure

[@jbizzle1966]

I noticed th a t too!

[@gordonmccoy4537]

@@DrJones20 ... Perhaps to some... He was the only American Officer in a command leadership position who really understood the Yellow Brain and knew how to out-think the enemy...

[@Seahorn_]

@@gordonmccoy4537 except that the us navy and marines played an equal if not bigger role in bringing down the japanese empire. Mc Arthur will always be remebered as the fruitcake who wanted to start WW 3 by demanding that China had to be nuked when the chinese intervened in the Korean War. Personally I also think that his demand to attack Japan via New Guinnea and the Philippines was more ego driven then stratetigal driven.

[@arthur131313]

How close it was for the Japanese to see Red Army troops to occupy part of Japan if Hirohito surrendered just a few days later.

[@BPD1586]

Then we'd probably have a North and South Japan.

[@arthur131313]

Yep

[@kimberlywilliams7543]

MacArthur warned the Russians that Truman would nuke the Russians if they set foot on the Northern Island Hokaido!

[@zahlen_0092]

impossible, the Red Army had no viable method of troop transportation to the Japanese islands.

[@jaeger9654]

@@zahlen_0092 they alrrady take northen island dude

[@ZOGGYDOGGY]

My dad was in the 11th Airborne. I was stationed on Okinawa for 26 months of my life.

[@jeremycholm]

Mike, what was your dad's name? When did he serve?

[@wayneasiam65]

The shame Japanese citizens felt must have been nearly unbearable. War is hell, man.

[@docbailey3265]

Japan: if I realised the Americans were this cool I would have surrendered two years ago.

[@zelphx]

This guy really butchered the name "Yokosuka"; I lived there when I was very young.

[@ninetailsnet]

Bataan the proper pronunciation is Bah-Tah-Ann not Bah-Tahn

[@wamatzeit]

Love your country , love your culture, love your people and your traditions.

[@johnclarke5459]

Ein Fuehre, Ein Reich'. wtc.etc

[@myfoolishheart1947]

GOD BLSS ALL OF YOU WHO SERVED, DEFENDING GOD ,ALL OF US, AND OUR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. LIKE MY GRAND FATHER MY FATHER, AND UNCLES. THANK YOU.

[@mikepxg6406]

Interesting

[@steven2212]

I lived in Atsugi in 1987. Great little town, ton of history.