The film shows American troops walking in Tokyo. It also shows destroyed areas of Tokyo and other cities, and a piece of antiquated fire-fighting equipment that the Japanese tried to use to stop the incendiary fires.
The film then talks about an educational program designed to “convince the Japs of their war guilt.” American planes fly over the Imperial Palace, “reminding it's heaven-borne tenant who was boss.”
A couple images of the Emperor, noting that MacArthur is now the boss of Japan.
Tojo in the hospital after his suicide attempt.
The atomic bomb, and a view of Hiroshima that I have not seen in any other video.
More images of Hiroshima.
Nagasaki.
U.S. troops land to take occupation of Japan.
Japanese hand over a military base to the Americans.
The Japanese show they still have a lot of weapons, including a baka bomb.
Wreckage of Japanese planes litter an airfield.
MacArthur lands at the airbase once it's been fixed up.
The surrender ceremony on the U.S.S. Missouri.
There were actually five areas of surrender.
Japanese surrendering in the Philippines.
Another surrender ceremony in the Philippines. The Japanese general surrenders, and then is put under arrest and taken to prison.
Surrender of Marcus island.
The Japanese also surrender at Nanking.
Surrender ceremonies in Korea.
Freed American prisoners-of-war.
The video then talks about Japanese atrocities in the prisoner-of-war camps.
Here are some photos from a different source about surrenders in other parts of the Pacific than Japan itself.
