Pictorial History Of The Second World War; Volume VPICTORIAL HISTORY. SECOND WORLD WAR A PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF A. National Geographic Documentaries All Seasons. Episode Number: Episode Name: Originally Aired: Image: 1965 x 1: Americans on Everest.Ne ratez pas les nouveaux rendez-vous du live le mercredi. 93 prom Georges Pompidou 13008 MARSEILLE. Revelation 13 New International Version (NIV) The Beast out of the Sea. 13 The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. Tickets for Concerts, Sports, Theatre and More Online at TicketsInventory.com. Offers news, comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books, films, music, theatre, art and architecture. Requires free registration. YEAR OF VICTORY WITH SPECIAL. SECTIONS ON WAR PERSONALITIES. WEAPONS, AND GREAT BATTLE SCENES Vol. WM. WISE and CO., INC. Copyright 1. 94. 6. WM. WISE & Co., INC. Marine Corps Photo. Official U. Navy Photo. Press Association. Sovfoto. 22. 47, 2. U. Army Air Forces. U. Army Signal Corps Photo. While the events of that year would perhaps. The second. section is a gallery of the great personalities who led the Allies to. It has been possible. These are gathered. Great Battle Scenes. Likewise, with the section on. Weapons. Many of these photographs were not released until after the. The index is complete and. Not. only Japan itself remained to be occupied, but her vast stolen Empire. Singapore to Manchuria, had to be restored. Troops of the Chinese. Sixth Army began to fly to the coastal provinces of China and to. Nanking as early as September 6. The. situation in northern China was more complicated, with clashes. Communist and Nationalist armies for many. In Indonesia rebels set up an independent government and. Netherlands on October 1. Repeated. demonstrations, frequently accompanied by bloodshed, occurred in. Egypt, Palestine, India, and Indo- China. As the first year of peace. Emperor Hirohito proved an. Allied aims. The key men in the. Premier Shidehara was installed. The banks were reorganized, war. But Japan was a badly. Superfortresses. and atom bombs. There was much hunger and misery. It would be a long. Japanese people. by their war lords. It had been divided. English, American, French and. Russian) which badly hampered the rehabilitation of the war- weak. Germany's towns were heaps of rubble. Her people too were. At the Paris Peace Conference in the summer of 1. Germany. was not even on the agenda, well over a year after her defeat. The. future was distant and uncertain for the once powerful country which. War. II holocaust. The Nuremberg trial of. Nazi officials was unique in history. Opening on November 2. Nazis, including Goering, Keitel, Hess. Ribbentrop and von Papen, the trial continued for nearly a year. The whole. extraordinary procedure was calculated to establish a precedent which. General. Yamashita was taken into custody on September 3 and hung on February. General Homma was arrested on September 1. General. Hideki Tojo, Premier at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, was. September 1. 1, but attempted suicide and was not. Many lesser known. Japan. and Germany in the first year following V- J Day. The. first session of the General Assembly opened on January 1. London. and the Security Council met in New York on March 2. From the outset. of the meetings, there was a major split in policy between the Western. Powers and Soviet Russia. The first test case was Iran, which Russian. The. question was placed on the Security Council's agenda in the face of. Russian disapproval and a satisfactory settlement was finally. Progress was also made by the United Nations in lesser. Paris. where delegates of the twenty- one victor nations gathered on July 2. Reconversion came to. But by spring. satisfactory wage levels had been negotiated and the wheels of. However, the damage had been done and. After a year of peace there was still a seller's market with. In the summer of 1. Office of Price. Administration was briefly discontinued, then a substitute measure. It had. been a bitter year for labor, management and consumer. Although millions of men were demobilized, the rate of. Many of the younger. GI Bill of Rights and. They proved to be the best students in the nation's. Despite. inflation, black markets, and other evils, there was a feeling in the. Costing an estimated $9. Test Able) and one under water (Test Baker), both bombs. Joint Task Force I. There were. seventy- three target ships of all types in the first test; about 8. Blandy was in command of the tests, with some. Able. Day was July 1, Baker Day, July 2. Of the 1. 60 vessels in both tests. In short, the effects were startling and terrible, but. It appeared that the. In any case, the atom bomb was demonstrated to be a potent. Much of the cargo would never be. Total. casualties, including wounded, were 1,0. Many of the armed. V- J Day. But those thousands who. The arrogant, six- foot- tall Japanese general was the commander. Philippines where Wainwright had been. Singapore. The general is shown as he grimly enters Bilibid prison a. Anderson, commanding general of the Fourth. Marine Wing. The American naval base had fallen to the Japanese in. December, 1. 94. 1, after 1. Two days later the official flag was raised at the. United States Embassy compound in the presence of General Mac. Arthur. who remarked as the flag went up: . The two Japanese in the top picture, among the first to be. U. S. Marine Corps interpreter, while the Japs, below, are polite. Yank at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Other Japanese soldiers. Many of the Japs also. This was their way of being. Here, the Americans look. General. Mac. Arthur was to demobilize about 3,0. Japanese homeland troops. By October 1. 6 Mac. Arthur announced the job was completed. They're glad the war is over but one must eat. However, many war. Many of the women were to be replaced by men in. Some of the older workers would not be needed. All of the workers. United States Army Air Force planes began a vast operation to. Chinese troops to the coastal provinces to disarm and. Here, joyous natives of. Nanking line the highway to the airport to watch the victorious. Chinese forces arrive to accept the Japanese surrender there. This. greatest airborne movement of troops in Asiatic history was under the. Lieutenant General George E. Stratemeyer, commander of. United States Air Forces in China. Troops of China's Sixth Army. American material, flew 6. Nanking. 6 in Formosa as sullen faced, well- fed. Japanese guards turn away. On September 3 a Tokyo. Kyushu Imperial. University had classified the effects of the bomb on the human body. All victims showed a marked. Plant life, on the other hand, the report said, had. Nagasaki. Japanese newsmen who visited the Nagasaki region. In her broadcasts she attempted to undermine the morale of. American GIs. Born twenty- nine years ago of Japanese parents in Los. Angeles, Calif., she was charged with treason against the United. States. The very first task of American occupying forces was to disarm. GI. trucks unloaded waste from army kitchens in this area and people from. Well- fed during their. European countries, some of Europe's misery now. German people. This first meeting of the big powers who had held. Nothing had been. But here, on the opening day, the United States. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, earnestly tackles a problem with an. England's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. These little. natives, dressed in the long bloomers that became the wartime fashion. Japan, pick their way through the rubble wearing mouth and. When Mac. Arthur's men came to take him in custody he beckoned. Tojo had. collapsed (picture at right) from a self- inflicted bullet. American. blood plasma and medical skill saved Tojo's life for trial as a war. The capitulating enemy forces included 8. Singapore area and 5. Asia and the East. Indies. In the picture, Admiral Mountbatten reads the order of the. At his side is General R. Wheeler, deputy Southeast Asia. Commander representing the United States. The surrender by the Japanese to the British. British again in control of 1,5. Bengal to Hollandia. Here, a bewildered Yank. Nipponese language. Of the infamous . Kuroda. was Homma's successor in the Philippines. A few days later, automotive labor troubles were followed. The picture below shows. Texas pickets eating refreshments. The wave of strikes, with both. Meanwhile. reconversion dragged, prosperity was far around the corner . The girls take their defeat hard as do. These army. nurses served in the field under the same battle conditions as the. Bearing banners and placards, the crowds surged through the. The Emperor. arrived in a five- car convoy from the Imperial Palace and bowed and. Embassy. The foreign ruler of Japan and the man through whom he rules. The subjects discussed were not made public. In any event, the unusual. Emperor. to the Japanese people. However, residents set to. Poorer residents of Tokyo, below, line up for a. Note complicated ration documents. The sick and wounded slept on the wooden. In sharp contrast is the picture below. American colonel and the Japanese commandant of a prison. Shanghai engaged in a chat before a baseball game. This. picture was distributed by the Swedish representative of the YMCA War. Prisoner Aid. Many were bombed out of their. Reports indicated that the season's crop would. On October. 1. 6 Tokyo had its first . Note the crowds even on the rooftop. However, Tientsin was. Chinese Nationalist and Communist forces at bayonet points. Japanese Army still to be disarmed. Bridges and trains had been. The very first day of the trial, October. Judge, jurors, spectators. The crafty former Premier of France cajoled. The new Premier is shown, center above. Chief Secretary of the Government Tsagita, left, and Public. Welfare Administrator Ashida, right. Baron Shidehara, anti- militarist. He promised full cooperation with our. The Japanese girls quickly adapted. American dance steps. They. exchange polite greetings. But there is pathos in the intent look they. The. commander of the Indonesian People's Army in the Batavia area called. British opened up with fire from their warships and the RAF strafed. A few hours before he was to be shot he swallowed. Laval was resuscitated. Wearing the. white tie which he had made famous, he stood before the firing squad. Aim at my heart. Vive la France! The dead officer in the foreground of the upper. Gonzalo Barrios. Robert Ley, former Nazi labor leader who was to be tried as a war. Nuremberg, took his own life with a strip torn from a. He had stuffed his mouth with bits of rag to. Ley was first apprehended in May of 1. Berchtesgaden. He had been clad in pajamas (above) and. All other parties were far.
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