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Posted on 06/02/2010 10:57:45 AM PDT by calex59
This is a video of the surrender of Japan in WWII. I have never seen the video, only stills of the surrender. This is the first video I have seen of it and thought maybe FReepers would be interested in seeing it. It is what we used to call a News Reel, back in the day.
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 1945; chainemail; japan; mcarthur; wwii
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I think you will enjoy this if you are a history buff.
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posted on
06/02/2010 10:57:46 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: calex59
Back when we knew what the purpose of war was.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:03:10 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(RAT Hunting Season started the evening of March 21st, 2010!)
To: Redleg Duke
That’s so true, we knew we had to beat the crap out of our enemies. Did you watch the video? Very enlightening. Especially the footage of McArthur. Personally I would have executed every Japanese official on that ship, but that is just me.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:04:46 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: calex59
A reminder that Americans can rise up and defeat enemies... both foreign and domestic.
To: calex59
A day that I was actually proud of the Untied States of America.
One day, we WILL see the total and unconditional surrender of the Marxist/Communist/Liberals in this country.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:07:11 AM PDT
by
American Constitutionalist
(There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
To: PetroniusMaximus
Very true and very heartening in this day of wishy washy leaders. BTTT.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:07:32 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: American Constitutionalist
McArthur was an American Treasure and Truman was wrong during the Korean War. Had McArthur been given free reign there would be no divided Korea now and none of the trouble.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:09:04 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: calex59; All
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:09:36 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: calex59
To: calex59
McArthur should have been president.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:10:22 AM PDT
by
American Constitutionalist
(There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
To: American Constitutionalist
He would have beat the he** out of Ike, IMO.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:10:57 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: Snickering Hound
I’ve probably watched that six times since it popped up here over the weekend......fabulous.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:13:19 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
To: Snickering Hound; longtermmemmory
Thanks to both of you for the info. I lived through this stuff, although I was extremely young when it happened(born 1942, Jan), I grew up listening to it and to my relatives who served and about those who didn’t make it. All my friends had relatives, some of them parents, who had died or were horribly injured in WWII combat.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:13:31 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: American Constitutionalist
McArthur should have been president.
And we think Obama is a narcissist??
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:13:59 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
To: calex59
I didn’t know they had video in ‘45
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:15:05 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(I am a stranger in the country I was born and raised.)
To: ErnBatavia; American Constitutionalist
While I agree that McA had a huge ego, he was not a communist and had the American way of life as his ideology. Narcissist of not, he would have been a great President.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:16:07 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: llevrok
They didn't have digital video but they did have film and used it very extensively during the war, with a whole unit being dedicated to taking pictures and filming the war.
Try watching the "Color of War" videos narrated by Peter Coyote if you want an eye opener into the video of WWII.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:18:04 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: calex59
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:19:26 AM PDT
by
cvq3842
(Freedom is worth fighting for.)
To: cvq3842
You are welcome. I found it interesting that the tank they showed at the start of the video was the M3, possibly(more like certainly)the worse tank in use during the war.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:21:02 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: calex59
Note the sub-moron comments, especially from the idiot who doubts that any Brits could have been there, even though the clip devotes a full minute to the non-US allies signing the surrender.
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posted on
06/02/2010 11:26:12 AM PDT
by
atomic conspiracy
(Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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