00:01General MacArthur has deliberately stayed away from the Manila Conference,
00:06choosing to wait and come face-to-face with his conquered enemy on Japanese soil.
00:12He flies into Okinawa on August 29, 1945,
00:17in his own gleaming C-54 Skymaster Bataan.
00:21This is the crowning achievement of the 65-year-old conqueror's career.
00:32The defeated nation comes face-to-face with their conquerors on the USS Missouri
00:37at the surrender ceremony on September 2, 1945.
00:42Tokyo Bay is clogged with hundreds of powerful gleaming American fighting ships.
00:51At 8.55 a.m., the Japanese delegation reaches the Missouri.
01:10Finally, General MacArthur makes his entrance
01:13with Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and Admiral William Halsey.
01:20It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind,
01:27that from this solemn occasion,
01:31a better world shall emerge out of the bread and carnage of the past.
01:37A world founded upon faith and understanding.
01:41A world dedicated to the dignity of man
01:46and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish
01:50for freedom, tolerance, and justice.
01:57The signing of the surrender signals the official end
02:01to a savage conflict.
02:09After the Japanese, it's MacArthur's turn.
02:14Then come the representatives of nine other allied powers.
02:20As the Japanese are led away,
02:23the victors put on one final display of triumph.
02:25Fifteen hundred planes blowing superfortresses and Navy fighters roar across the sky.
