Posted on 09/01/2015 4:57:58 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Find links to two special broadcasts in a reply below.
Lar war we actually tried to win.
The Mighty Mo was moored in Bremerton for many years, used to go aboard every so often.
Lar war we actually tried to win.
And we did it extremely well.
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With the exception of letting Stalin take over half of Europe and a bunch of Asia, yes.
my grandfather, Brig Gen William E Chambers, a member of MacArthur’s staff, is in that picture and i have his admission card with the rising sun issued to attendees that puts him at this ceremony.
What a heritage!
The big banana!
Letting.... no we helped a lot... we sent a whole lot of materiel to them
Thanks for the Toscanini, no doubt my farm folk family heard it live.
http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Dip/AxisInDefeat/img/Defeat-p36.jpg
http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Dip/AxisInDefeat/img/Defeat-p37.jpg
My dad was on the USS Neches, the most decorated Fleet Oiler in WWII, first oiler in Tokyo Bay, and the 14th ship overall. They’re last port before that was what had been Nagasaki. He and I were aboard the Mighty Mo on the 30th anniversary of the surrender.
http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Dip/AxisInDefeat/Defeat-2.html#japan
Japanese Surrender Documents
Imperial Rescript
[September 1-2, 1945]
P R O C L A M A T I O N
Accepting the terms set forth in Declaration issued by the heads of the Governments of the United States, Great Britain and China on July 26th, 1945 at Potsdam and subsequently adhered to by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, We have commanded the Japanese Imperial Government and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters to sign on Our behalf the Instrument of Surrender presented by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and to issue General Orders to the Military and Naval Forces in accordance with the direction of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. We command all Our people forthwith to cease hostilities, to lay down their arms and faithfully to carry out all the provisions of Instrument of Surrender and the General Orders issued by the Japanese Imperial
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Government and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters hereunder.
This second day of the ninth month of the twentieth year of Syõwa.
Seal of
the
Emperor
H I R O H I T O
NARUHIKO-Õ
Prime Minister
MAMORU SHIGEMITSU
Minister for Foreign Affairs
IWAO YAMAZAKI
Minister for Home Affairs
JUICHI TSUSHIMA
Minister of Finance
SADAMU SHIMOMURA
Minister of War
MITSUMASA YONAI
Minister of Navy
CHUZO IWATA
Minister of Justice
TAMON MAEDA
Minister of Education KENZO MATSUMURA
Minister of Welfare
KOTARO SENGOKU
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
CHIKUHEI NAKAJIMA
Minister of Commerce and Industry
NAOTO KOBIYAMA
Minister of Transportation
FUMIMARO KONOE
Minister without Portfolio
TAKETORA OGATA
Minister without Portfolio
BINSHIRO OBATA
Minister without Portfolio
Editor’s Note.—Signatures to document, pp. 36-37, signed on the U.S.S. Missouri, are of Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshimiro Umezu of the Imperial General Staff, and for the United Nations the signature are of Gen. Douglas MacArthur for the Allied Powers, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz for the United States, Gen. Hsu Yung-Ch’ang for China, Admiral Sir Bruce A. Fraser for the United Kingdom, Lt. Gen. Kuzma Derevyanko for the Soviet Union, Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey for Australia, Col. L. Moore Cosgrave for Canada, Gen Jacques Le Clerc for France, Admiral C.E.L. Helfrich for the Netherlands, and Air Vice Marshal Leonard M. Isitt for New Zealand.
Credentials of the Japanese Delegates
Translation.
H I R O H I T O ,
By the Grace of Heaven, Emperor of Japan, seated on the Throne occupied by the same Dynasty changeless through ages eternal,
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!
We do hereby authorise Yoshijiro Umezu, Zyosanmi, First Class of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class of the Imperial Military Order of the Golden Kite, to attach his signature by command and in behalf of Ourselves and Our Imperial General Headquarters
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unto the Instrument of Surrender which is required by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to be signed.
In witness whereof, We have hereunto set Our signature and caused the Great Seal of the Empire to be affixed.
Given at Our Palace in Tõkyõ, this first day of the ninth month of the twentieth year of Syõwa, being the two thousand six hundred and fifth year from the Accession of the Emperor Zinmu.
Seal of
the
Emperor
H I R O H I T O
YOSHIJIRO UMEZU
Chief of the General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Army
SOEMU TOYODA
Chief of the General Staff of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Depends on the scope of your strategic vision. I personally incline to the view put forward by Norman Podhoretz that the Cold War was WW III, fought in slow motion thanks to nuclear deterrence, and that the “Long War” (or absurdly named “Global War on Terror” is WW IV.
Yeah, we threw a campaign we should have won in Southeast Asia, and only managed to draw the campaign in Korea (each though of as their own “war” by those with a myopic view of strategy), but we won the whole thing, and Reagan’s stealth victory would make Sun Tzu proud.
A heartfelt thanks from everyone for your diligence in posting these daily WWII threads from the NYT.
http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Dip/AxisInDefeat/Defeat-2.html#japan
President Truman’s Radio Address
September 1, 1945
My fellow Americans: The thoughts and hopes of all America—indeed of all the civilized world—are centered tonight on the battleship Missouri. There on that small piece of American soil anchored in Tokyo Harbor the Japanese have just officially laid down their arms. They have signed terms of unconditional surrender.
Four years ago the thoughts and fears of the whole civilized world were centered on another piece of American soil—Pearl Harbor. The mighty threat to civilization which began there is now laid at rest. It was a long road to Tokyo—and a bloody one.
We shall not forget Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese militarists will not forget the U.S.S. Missouri.
The evil done by the Japanese warlords can never be repaired or forgotten. But their power to destroy and kill has been taken from them. Their Armies and what is left of their Navy are now impotent.
To all of us there comes first a sense of gratitude to Almighty God Who sustained us and our Allies in the dark days of grave danger, Who made us to grow from weakness into the strongest fighting force in history, and Who now has seen us overcome the forces of tyranny that sought to destroy His civilization.
God grant that in our pride of the hour we may not forget the hard tasks that are still before us; that we may approach these with the same courage, zeal, and patience with which we faced the trials and problems of the past four years.
Our first thoughts of course—thoughts of gratefulness and deep obligation—go out to those of our loved ones who have been killed or maimed in this terrible war. On land and sea and in the air, American men and women have given their lives so that this day of ultimate victory might come and assure the survival of a civilized world. No victory can make good their loss.
We think of those whom death in this war ha hurt, taking from them husbands, sons, brothers, and sisters whom they loved. No victory can bring back the faces they longed to see.
We have had our day of prayer and devotion. Now lett us set aside V-J Day s one of renewed consecration to the principles which
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have made us the strongest Nation on earth and which, in this war, we have striven so mightily to preserve.
Those principles provide the faith, the hope, and the opportunity which help men to improve themselves and their lot. Liberty does not make all men perfect nor all society secure. But it has provided more solid progress and happiness and decency for more people than any other philosophy of government in history. And this day has shown again that it provides the greatest strength and the greatest power which man has ever reached.
We know that under it we can meet the hard problems of peace which have come upon us. A free people with free Allies, who can develop an atomic bomb, can use the same skill and energy and determination to overcome all the difficulties ahead.
Victory always has its burdens and its responsibilities as well as its rejoicing.
But we face the future and all its dangers with great confidence and great hope. America can build for itself a future of employment and security. Together with the United Nations it can build a world of peace founded on justice and fair dealing and tolerance.
As President of the United States, I proclaim Sunday, September 2, 1945 to be V-J Day—the day of formal. surrender by Japan. It is not yet the day for the formal proclamation of the end of the war or of the cessation of hostilities. But it is a day which we Americans shall always remember as a day of retribution—as we remember that other day, the day of infamy.
From this day we move forward. We move toward a new era of security at home. With the other United Nations we move toward a new and better world of peace and international good-will and cooperation.
God’s help has brought us to this day of victory. With His help we will attain that peace and prosperity for ourselves and all the world in the years ahead.
I have seen film of the surrender several times tho not the entire ceremony. MacArthur was a master in producing such a ceremony.
I still recall his final words: “These proceedings are closed”.
And now we have a dept of state that does not recognize justice.
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