Thank you so much for posting. Seeing it in color makes it look so different than most WWII-era videos——much more recent, more “real”, somehow. And it makes me cry, because my dad was still in Europe then, and I wonder what he was doing that day.
My dad had mostly recovered from burns suffered in a crash landing of his C-46 in India and had been informed that his services might be required again in the planned invasion of Japan in late 1945. He was a Hump Pilot in the CBI Campaign.
I can only imagine the relief he and others felt when the VJ news was made public.