The complete unaltered surrender ceremony broadcast live via shortwave radio from the U.S.S. Missouri. Listen to the official end of WW2 as the people of the world heard it Sep. 2,1945. Very rare audio that literally took me years to find. PUBLIC DO…
The complete unaltered surrender ceremony broadcast live via shortwave radio from the U.S.S. Missouri. Listen to the official end of WW2 as the people of the world heard it Sep. 2,1945. Very rare audio that literally took me years to find. PUBLIC DOMAIN: Message me if you'd like a copy. Lets not let it fall to obscurity.
WARNING: Use of a racial slur against the Japanese used throughout the broadcast.
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Sequence of Events:
0:00-3:25 - News
3:26-6:40 - Douglas MacArthur Speech (Gathered Here)
6:41 - Signing ceremony begins
10:30 - Empire of Japan signs
12:00 - Allied Commanders sign
14:43 - United States of America signs
15:33 - China signs
16:30 - United Kingdom signs
17:30 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signs (USSR)
18:50 - Dominion of Australia signs
19:55 - Dominion of Canada signs
20:50 - Republic of France signs
21:30 - Netherlands signs
22:35 - New Zealand signs
22:50 - Ceremony Ended with a Prayer for Peace
26:42-36:00 - US President Harry S. Truman Speech (End of War)
36:20-40:20 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur Speech (Guns Fall Silent)
40:25-43:45 - Adm. Chester Nimitz Speech (Seas are Open)
The "Guns Fall Silent" Speech is my favorite. Its why I searched for this for years. I was just looking for that particular speech but I happened to run into the whole ceremony. Here are the words below...
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won....
As I look back upon the long, tortuous trail from those grim days of Bataan and Corregidor, when an entire world lived in fear, when democracy was on the defensive everywhere, when modern civilization trembled in the balance, I thank a merciful God that he has given us the faith, the courage and the power from which to mold victory. We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.
A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.... Military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. We have had our last chance. If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural development of the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
