/ Foreign Affairs Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu sits at desk on board USS Missouri to sign Japanese surrender documents / General Douglas MacArthur then signs the documents sitting on the opposite side of the table / hands first pen to...

VS battleship USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay / MS USS Missouri with seamen standing on deck / LS high angle of battleship USS Buchanan alongside Missouri (view from upper deck of Missouri) / MS camera follows US General Douglas...

US Pres. Harry S. Truman shakes hands with Adm. Chester Nimitz upon decorating him with the Distinguished Service Medal; Mrs. Catherine Nimitz looks on / WS Nimitz on dais of House of Representatives chamber prior to his address to a...

Admiral Chester Nimitz, Chief of Naval Operations, preparing to sit with other officers in committee hearing room / he stands and steps to microphone with speech in hand and begins speaking / committee members listening / shot from...

Atomic bomb explosion – LS huge explosion from atomic bomb, fireball rising up into sky, shaping into a mushroom cloud / flames curl ad wind into hug ball of ire and rest of the screen in darkness // Japanese surrenders aboard the USS...

/ Foreign Affairs minister for Japan, Mamoru Shigemitsu limps on board USS Missouri / followed on board by Chief of the Imperial Staff, General Yoshijiro Umezu / Japanese representatives gather on deck surrounded by military / Fleet...

Sweeping view of the guided missile destroyer ship USS Halsey / Fleet Admiral William Halsey walks up gangplank, saluting as he walks onto ship deck / Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth, and Admiral Chester Nimitz present at the formal...

Overhead shot of US Navy marching band and formation of Navy personnel marching down street / VS crowd on sidewalk, sailors in crowd / shot of three US flags sticking out of side of building, tilt down to crowd on sidewalk and parade /...

Military officers stepping onto speaker's platform shaped like prow of ship in front of City Hall, sign above platform showing Pacific Ocean and saying 'Nimitz Sea' / Mayor of NY Fiorello La Guardia and Admiral Chester Nimitz, Chief of...

Line of cars and jeeps in parade coming down street / US Navy officers marching in formation / confetti floating down from building, three US flags sticking out from side of building / street level shot of sailors carrying rifles...

Three overhead shots of US Navy personnel marching in formation down street / two shots of crowd on sidewalk behind barriers / Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of US Pacific Fleet, sitting on back of rear seat in open car...

Crowd in front of City Hall applauding after speech by Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of US Pacific Fleet / pan across crowd to speaker's platform shaped like ship's prow in front of City Hall, Nimitz walking back through...

Overhead shot of US Navy personnel marching in formation / WS City Hall with crowd in front of it / Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of US Pacific Fleet, and other officers on speaker's platform shaped like prow of ship in...

Four overhead shots of US Navy personnel marching in formation down street / shot on street level of WAVES marching in formation / close view of Navy personnel carrying rifles marching in formation past camera / WS City Hall with crowd...

VS large crowd in front of City Hall / four shots of US Navy officers standing in formation in front of St Bartholomew's Episcopal Church / two shots of marching band coming down Park Avenue / Admiral Chester Nimitz, Chief of Naval...

Three Navy officers and Adm. Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of US Pacific Fleet, getting into landing barge / Nimitz standing in barge and waving / barge pulls away / group of Korean men and women posing for photo opportunity /...

Banner stretched over street reading 'Well Done Admiral' / people in crowd / high overhead shot of car carrying Adm. Chester Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Fleet, driving along street with V-shaped motorcycle police escort in...

CU US Adm. Chester Nimitz; American flag and US Navy 4-Star admiral flag flutter in breeze / Nimitz with reporters / Nimitz, Rear Admiral Thomas Withers, Captain William Smith

Military personnel standing in formation at base of Washington Monument / Adm. Chester Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Fleet, coming down steps from airplane and walking between two rows of sailors saluting him, his wife Catherine...

B/W 1945 high angle REAR VIEW Nimitz sits at table / officers in background / surrender of Japan on U.S.S. Missouri

B/W 1945 high angle REAR VIEW Admiral Nimitz approaching table at surrender of Japan on U.S.S. Missouri

Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of US Pacific Fleet, speaking on speaker's platform shaped like ship's prow in front of NY City Hall during observance of Nimitz Day; military officers sitting behind him; New York official...

Shot of tower of City Hall, tilt down building to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia speaking on speaker's platform shaped like prow of ship, sign above platform showing Pacific Ocean and reading 'Nimitz Sea' / LaGuardia speaking, with Adm....

Two shots of Adm. Chester Nimitz, Chief of Naval Operations, standing at microphone reading statement to Senate committee, reporters and audience behind him