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00:55And now, design for peace.
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01:075.30 a.m., July 16, 1945.
01:11The desert of New Mexico.
01:13From a single gram of matter, man releases the explosive energy of 20,000 tons of TNT.
01:19Dawn of the atomic age.
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01:288.16 a.m., August 6, 1945.
01:31Hiroshima, Japan.
01:33A city dies as an age is born.
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01:41One bomb from one plane, and life becomes death.
01:45One bomb from one plane, and Hiroshima is wasteland.
01:49One bomb from one plane, and 78,000 human beings perish.
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02:01Three days later, one more bomb on Nagasaki, and 24,000 more die.
02:06Two bombs, and World War II is over.
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02:23Allied ships sail into Tokyo Bay.
02:25The goal toward which they set their course 44 months earlier,
02:28after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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02:46To the 163 amphibious landings that were made in the Pacific,
02:50a final token one is added.
02:52The 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines,
02:54originally wiped out at Bataan and Corregidor,
02:57reconstituted, goes ashore to test whether the Japanese
03:00will resist on their own soil.
03:02Whether peace has really come.
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03:10There is no resistance.
03:11The Empire of Japan surrenders fully, completely.
03:15The Allies are spared one million casualties.
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03:31Liberated prisoners of war, the first fruits of victory,
03:34the immediate prize of peace.
03:3723,000 Allied soldiers, sailors, Marines,
03:40are freed from camps throughout Japan.
03:43Some have been captive since the fall of Manila and Singapore in 1942.
03:47Many who survive are near the limits of mental and physical endurance.
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04:13For the living, liberation and relief,
04:16and return to home, return to life.
04:20For the dead, to all who died in strange lands under foreign skies,
04:25war your rest.
04:27Thy task is done.
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04:52The Navy's hospital ships receive the sick, the war, the weary.
04:56Benevolence for those who have waited,
04:58those who have suffered.
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05:15Ships of the United States Navy converge.
05:17The Allied armada gathers.
05:19Britain's Royal Navy ends the long, long odyssey from Dunkirk
05:23on the English Channel to victory in the Bay of Tokyo.
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05:44Japanese pilots guide the Allied ships into harbor,
05:47past the shattered symbols of aggression,
05:49past the junk and debris that was once the magnificent Imperial Japanese Navy.
05:54The island empire, the dream of conquest,
05:56died with the death of the Imperial fleet.
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06:13From the battleship Missouri, the word was flashed.
06:16Cease fire, cease fire.
06:18The war is over.
06:20From the Missouri went Admiral Halsey's message to the fleet.
06:23Well done.
06:25Now, on September 2, 1945,
06:28the final act of World War II is staged on her decks,
06:31the formal surrender of the Japanese empire to the Allied powers.
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07:33On behalf of nine Allied nations,
07:35China, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France,
07:39the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Soviet Union, and the United States,
07:43General of the Army MacArthur directs the Japanese to sign the instrument of surrender.
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07:58Foreign Minister Shigemitsu signs for Emperor Hirohito and the government of Japan.
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08:06General Umezu for the Imperial General Staff.
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08:17General Manchurian prison camp General Wainwright, captured on Corregidor,
08:21and General Percival, captured at Singapore,
08:23have come to take a place of honor with General MacArthur,
08:26who signs for the Allied powers.
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08:43Fleet Admiral Nemitz for the armed forces of the United States.
09:14One condition, and only one, is allowed by the Allies in Japan's unconditional surrender.
09:20Emperor Hirohito remains, and to his subjects he proclaims a new day,
09:24a future day wherein men, not armies, men, not navies, men, not air forces,
09:30men, not despots, will determine their own destiny, set their own course.
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10:22Peace has come, and so comes the occupation, but the occupation will go.
10:28In Europe, throughout the world, the sound of guns has ceased,
10:32but the sound of mourning continues and will continue.
10:35Innocent victims of war do not forget, and let none forget.
10:40The brand of tyranny and oppression will forever scar the conscience of mankind.
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10:54They fight to liberate, President Roosevelt said of the Allied armies.
10:58At Buchenwald and Dachau, at Belsen and Auschwitz, the locks were broken, the barriers fell.
11:04In the concentration camps, in the slave labor depots,
11:08men inflicted their greatest indignity on man, but now he is free.
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11:55Man vilified, man broken.
11:58This is society in its blackest depth.
12:01The human cost that no statistics can even suggest, no words describe.
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12:35To the dead, to the maimed in body, to the broken in spirit,
12:39the words victory and peace have lost their meaning.
12:42But for all the rest, the words mean life and liberty and home.
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13:35For the troops in Europe, earmarked for further combat in the Pacific,
13:38the bomb that burst over Hiroshima has one single surpassing meaning.
13:42Home. Home again.
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14:07In the Pacific, where war began for the United States and ceased for the world,
14:11the voyage home is called the magic carpet run.
14:14And nothing out of the Arabian Nights is more magical
14:16for these battle-weary sailors than the prospect ahead.
14:20They're going home.
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14:58The tedium of the convoy, of any convoy, the hours that drag, the interminable days.
15:05But now the undercurrent of chill and foreboding, of hostile shores and coming combat is gone.
15:11Now the ships that were built to kill and destroy become floating playgrounds
15:15where the dirty job of war is over and cares are cast aside.
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16:38The song for all seas, all ships, was sung long ago by Walt Whitman.
16:44Flot out, O sea, your separate flag of nations.
16:47Flot out visible as ever the various ship signals.
16:50But reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest.
16:56A spiritual woven signal for all nations.
16:59Emblem of man alight above death.
17:01Token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates,
17:05and all that went down doing their duties.
17:08Reminiscent of them, twined from all intrepid captains, young or old,
17:12a pennant universal, subtly waving all time,
17:15for all brave sailors, all seas, all ships.
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17:41To the ports of both coasts, along the west coast, along the east coast,
17:46the ships that sailed away to war and death, bring back their millions to peace and life.
17:51To these men, free men owe their victory on land, their victory in the air, their victory at sea.
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23:49Home they come, each in search of his own design for peace, his own pattern for the future.
23:56But first, in all the Allied lands, in all the Allied world, one last parade.
24:02The parade of all who marched out together to meet the challenge of terror.
24:06And who, together, conquered it.
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25:42The free world, on its march toward tomorrow, takes with it the moral that Winston Churchill derived from the struggle that has passed.
25:50In war, resolution.
25:52In defeat, defiance.
25:54In victory, magnanimity.
25:56In peace, goodwill.
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