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From the poster of the video: "My Dad (USN) shot this beautiful color Kodachrome 16mm film footage before, during and after VJ Day, August 14, 1945, in Hawaii.
My Dad's rude introduction to WWII took place on the morning of December 7, 1941 when, eight minutes before enemy bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor, he was literally bombed out of his bunk at Oahu's Kaneohe Naval Air Station by Japanese fighter planes.
Following the passing of my Mom and Dad I came into possession of this spectacular 1945 film footage of VJ Day celebrations in Honolulu."
Entire text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tg5JyCnHqk
Aug 15, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of Japan surrendering to end WW-2. When the news had flashed on the moving electric sign in Times Square the night before, half a million revelers let out a “victory roar” that “beat upon the eardrums until it numbed the senses. For twenty minutes wave after wave of that joyous roar surged forth.”
Here's a rare COLOR film of the celebration in Honolulu on 15 Aug 1945 when the surrender was announced. LOVE those old cars, wish I had a garage full of them.
[vimeo]5645171[/vimeo] https://vimeo.com/5645171
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Two minute silence at 11am in the UK, the RAF Red Arrows will be marking the event with a fly pass and at 8.30pm: Watch ‘VJ Day 75: The Nation’s Tribute’, will be screened on BBC One, filmed on Horse Guards Parade with famous faces reading tributes, military bands and dramatic visual projection.
Also worth remembering the brave crew members, and the fact that s B-29 Superfortress named 'Over Exposed' crashed in England only a few years later, killing everyone on board.
The tragic events occurred on the 3 November 1948 and are told in the video below, and the wreckage still litters parts of the Peak District Moors in Derbyshire at Higher Shelf Stones at Bleaklow.
Sadly all those who died were looking forward to returning to the US in only a few days, and the flight between RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and RAF Burtonwood in Cheshire was a fairly short and routine flight.
The aircraft was part of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, which was at the time based at RAF Scampton.
In the present time it’s hard to appreciate the kind of elation and reprieve from possible death or injury these people must have felt. We’re talking about troops fighting the final stages of the war in Europe and the Pacific being rerouted into staging camps for a massive sea borne invasion of the Japanese home islands. It was really over and millions were going back home.
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