The Last Days of World War II

August 12-August 18: V-J Day

S1 • E26    Aug 12, 2005    42m
In Tokyo, the Japanese government at last accepts the inevitable and surrenders to the Allies unconditionally. President Truman declares that "this is the day we've been waiting for since Pearl Harbor." Emperor Hirohito makes an emotional broadcast to the Japanese nation saying that they had to surrender to keep the country from being destroyed by "a new and most cruel bomb." The surrender is formally made to General MacArthur at a ceremony aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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Cast of August 12-August 18: V-J Day

  • Greg StebnerNarrator
  • Max HastingsSelf - Author, 'Armageddon'
  • Kerry SmithSelf - Professor, Brown University
  • Gregory J.W. UrwinSelfSelf - Professor, Temple University
  • William AtwaterSelf - Curator, US Army Ordnance Museum
  • Alan BrinkleySelf - Professor, Columbia University
  • Omer BartovSelf - Professor, Brown University
  • Donald DenckerSelf - WWII Veteran, Pacific
  • Richard RhodesSelf - Author, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb'
  • James SheehanSelf - Professor, Stanford University

 

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