Japanese Sign Final Surrender

News reel of the surrender ceremony on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Background music is "With Honour Crowned".

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• WWII
• japanese
• surrender
• missouri
• tokyo
• september
• 1945
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• corporation

[Mattwad]

@BasqueNYC

Amazing post!! Thank you for that. The Japanese are amazing people, but monstrous in the past.

[BasqueNYC]

The Japanese were honorable people they surrendered and didn't start up gurellia fighting they listened and accepted their fate cause they have honor actually they were surprised at the treatment they received at the signing of surrender,it is said Hirohito broke down into tears when he found out that the allies treated them with respect and not like slaves

[MakepplQQthenRQ]

@DarkLordGreg88 so people were bombing people less when saddam was there lol

[rickjones53]

The wars in Vietnam and Korea while certainly wars were also battles in the Cold War. The former was a battle that the USA did not win and the latter was fought to draw. However, there is no doubt that the USA and its allies won the Cold War. Thus the war in Iraq and Afghanistan cannot be looked at in isolation but only terms of the larger war against Islamic extremism.

[DarkLordGreg88]

@juki0h Iraq is so far a success, we toppled Saddam's regime and installed a democracy even though it took longer than anticipated mainly because al-Qaeda made it the central battlefield in the "war on terror" and they got spanked. We left because the Iraqi government pretty much told us to leave. Afghanistan is still on going but mainly trying to root out the remaining Taliban or get some type of peace. So please read up on the facts before posting, thanks

[DarkLordGreg88]

@juki0h lol do you know any history or common sense? Korea was somewhat a Victory as the mission was to protect South Korea from the communist North and that was done even though we almost toppled the North the US got too close to China and they pushed back thus leaving the current border. Vietnam was not a loss, the US was completely destroying North Vietnam/Vietcong but the anti-war movement and media coverage of the carnage put too much pressure on the government and forces us to leave early

[GoldComet6]

@Ravensteinzh You say the IJN ships/aircraft are better - but not what the TE is. G3/A6M are similar to B-25/P-40 - built with same methods & tech. US carriers were equal in protection, had better fire supression & had similar speed & # of aircraft carried. Still don't see the TE you say is there. I would agree that Germany had a TE – its rocket aircraft, swept wing designs, jet engines & V1/V2 rockets were technology that US later copied. Germany gave some tech to Japan - like J8M & Ki-201.

[GoldComet6]

@Ravensteinzh Yamato was just a bigger conventional battleship - not more advanced. Zero gave up a lot for range & turning ability. But it wasn't more technologically advanced than an F4F. Later in the war the A6M was outclassed - the Ki-44, Ki-61 and esp the Ki-84 were better overall aircraft. Better US pilots was the key - the aircraft were the same. Once weaknesses of A6M were learned it was beaten by pilots in P-40s & F4Fs. Think Thatch Weave.

[juki0h]

@gumbeet for the corporations, for the united states, hell no! for the people, hell no! for afganistan and iraq, hell no!

[gumbeet]

@juki0h wrong iraq and afghanistan are successful for USA