Signing of Japanese surrender documents

/ 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 General Jonathan M Wainwright who salutes / MacArthur hands another pen to Lieutenant General Arthur Percival / Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz also signs / General Hsu Yung-chang signs for China / Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser signs for the United Kingdom / Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko signs for the Soviet Union / General Sir Thomas Blamey signs for Australia / Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave signs for Canada / General de Armee Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque signs for France / Lieutenant Admiral C.E.L. Helfrich signs for the Netherlands / Air Vice-Marshal Leonard M. Isitt signs for New Zealand / Japanese watch stiffly / General Richard K. Sutherland hands the Japanese their copy of the documents. Signing of Japanese surrender documents on September 02, 1945 in Tokyo, Japan (Footage by Getty Images)
/ 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 General Jonathan M Wainwright who salutes / MacArthur hands another pen to Lieutenant General Arthur Percival / Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz also signs / General Hsu Yung-chang signs for China / Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser signs for the United Kingdom / Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko signs for the Soviet Union / General Sir Thomas Blamey signs for Australia / Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave signs for Canada / General de Armee Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque signs for France / Lieutenant Admiral C.E.L. Helfrich signs for the Netherlands / Air Vice-Marshal Leonard M. Isitt signs for New Zealand / Japanese watch stiffly / General Richard K. Sutherland hands the Japanese their copy of the documents. Signing of Japanese surrender documents on September 02, 1945 in Tokyo, Japan (Footage by Getty Images)
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Editorial #:
169570229
Collection:
Archive Films: Editorial
Date created:
02 September, 1945
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Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:02:28:04
Location:
Tokyo, Japan
Mastered to:
QuickTime 8-bit Photo-JPEG HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm OCN 24p
Source:
Archive Films Editorial
Object name:
692201_surrender_51113_4_master.mov