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00:00By the summer of 1945, the Allies are tearing Japan to shreds.
00:06We scatter in all directions and shout, they're coming.
00:11A ground invasion seems imminent.
00:14The largest amphibious assault in human history.
00:18We knew the beaches. We knew the order of battle.
00:22But one bomb changes everything.
00:26People just sat, patching fire.
00:31Some memories will never fade.
00:33I experienced the collapse of our nation.
00:36And no survivors will ever forget.
00:39My mother thought I had been killed.
00:42Hear the voices and feel the fight.
01:07We were going up in daylight and dropping leaflets that said, we advise you to evacuate your town.
01:14Because we're coming up here Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock to burn it to the ground.
01:30In March of 1945, General Curtis LeMay took a torch to Tokyo in the world's first large-scale use of
01:38napalm bombs.
01:42The first fire raid on Tokyo flattened 16 square miles of the city.
01:47LeMay was ecstatic.
01:49He ordered more of those missions immediately.
01:56LeMay targets any place with a war industry.
01:59In a matter of months, America firebombs 67 Japanese cities.
02:09Fueled by wood and wind, flames washed through Japan like a flood.
02:18Mother, with my little brother on her back, had her feet swept out from under her by the wind.
02:25And she rolled away into the flames.
02:32American firebombs kill an estimated half million citizens.
02:44LeMay films the damage himself.
02:47His footage has never been broadcast before.
02:52In some places, only bridges are left.
02:56Connecting neighborhoods that no longer exist.
03:03I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
03:11But all war is immoral.
03:14And if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
03:26Japanese film shows the rush to evacuate.
03:33Entire classrooms of kids migrate from city to country.
03:39But they don't escape the fear.
03:43By 1945, we no longer had many classes.
03:48The main thing we did was dig an anti-tank ditch in the corner of the school yard.
03:57Japan is increasingly desperate.
04:01America swoops in ever closer.
04:17By June, we had just about obliterated any opposition that we had from the ground or from the air.
04:31Japan deploys its last planes and pilots to face the allies in dogfights.
04:46These battles used to be out over the open Pacific.
04:52Now, they're over Japan itself.
05:00Then, the Japanese simply run out of gas.
05:08We would see whole airfields loaded with airplanes.
05:13And there wasn't one that could get off the ground.
05:19The Japanese were completely out of fuel.
05:43The Japanese were completely out of fuel.
05:45The Umpire is gasping for breath.
05:50Yet, there's no sign of surrender.
05:55Allies begin planning for the unthinkable.
06:04We had the plans for the landing in Japan.
06:08And we knew the beaches.
06:10We knew the order of battle.
06:14All six marine divisions were gonna land in the assault.
06:18And we would be followed by 32 army divisions, including MacArthur's.
06:24It would be the largest amphibious assault in the history of warfare.
06:30Codename, Operation Downfall.
06:35Then, they were going to embark something like 70 divisions out of Europe and sail directly there.
06:42The high-end estimate of the invasion force is nearly 2 million men.
06:48Planners assume that fighting will rage into 1947.
06:58After the human wreckage left on Okinawa just weeks earlier.
07:04Most marines don't doubt this dire prediction.
07:09We knew they were digging in.
07:11All those tremendous defenses in Okinawa.
07:14They did in four months.
07:17They had a lot longer than that to prepare in Tokyo.
07:29An officer told us we were going to be in the assault wave.
07:32He said, look to your right and look to your left.
07:36A week after we hit that beach, one of you will be dead.
07:41That was a real morale builder.
07:45But President Harry Truman is weighing a different option.
07:56In the middle of nowhere, New Mexico.
07:59Scientists prepare to hoist a steel globe into a tower of scaffolding.
08:05It's the world's first nuclear device.
08:08It's the world's first nuclear device.
08:09They lift it carefully, knowing if it drops, it'll turn them into dust.
08:15If it works at all.
08:18This is the moment of truth for the Manhattan Project, the Trinity Test.
08:25After securing it in the tower, the scientists move 20 miles away.
08:32Then, they flip the switch.
08:40It was like being at the bottom of an ocean of light.
08:46We were bathed in it from all directions.
08:56We knew the world would not be the same.
09:02A few people laughed.
09:06A few people cried.
09:11Most people were silent.
09:17Then, one of Oppenheimer's colleagues turns to him and says,
09:21Now, we are all sons of bitches.
09:30Trinity was a test of a fragile bomb of unknown power, sitting on the floor of an empty desert.
09:40Next, they'll have to figure out how to push one out of a moving airplane.
09:50Only a handful of humans know the atomic age has dawned.
09:55For everyone else, the Pacific War still looks like this.
10:08Supplying China has stymied the Allies since the start of the war.
10:14Japan controls the Burma Road, choking off China from Allied territory.
10:21As a workaround, Americans tried flying supplies over the hump of the Himalayas.
10:31They tried sending secret agents through Tibet to get on the good side of the seven-year-old Dalai Lama.
10:40Finally, they tried engineering.
10:45Allies try to bypass the Japanese blockade with a new road from the Indian town of Lido.
10:54The jungle is no easy place to make a detour.
10:58It was rugged.
11:00We were assigned to mile zero, which we called Hell's Gate.
11:05From there, they slowly carve a new ribbon of road for 460 miles.
11:13We used every imaginable tool they had to move the earth.
11:19Workers nicknamed it the big snake.
11:22It takes a bite out of every man that works on it.
11:28I lost about 55 pounds up there on the road.
11:31The rations and the heat took me bad.
11:36But the effort pays off.
11:39A stream of supplies begins to flow into China.
11:43Now the pressure on Japan seems to be coming from every direction.
11:51Burma can now stand firm with the Allies.
11:55Japanese troops dissolve into the jungle, isolated and abandoned.
12:04Here, freedom is a relief.
12:12In the American West, it's bittersweet.
12:17Since 1942, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans have been forced into internment camps.
12:31Kids have been growing up as little more than prisoners.
12:36When I got to camp, I was a junior.
12:39My diploma was from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
12:45The fears that put them here have not materialized.
12:50They haven't become spies or saboteurs.
12:54Instead, they've been quietly showing just how American they really are.
13:04So even with the war grinding on, America opens the gates.
13:10That was a dividing line in our lives.
13:13Before camp and after camp.
13:17Roberta and Takeo Sharoma will have to start over.
13:22My parents lost their business.
13:25It's like they're immigrants once more.
13:28Departing with a few suitcases to a country whose lofty principles do not apply to them.
13:37Many Americans don't want them back.
13:40One senator suggests they all be deported to Japan.
13:46West Coast newspapers decry what they call California's Jap problem.
13:54My father could not get a job.
13:57They said, have you looked at your face? We can't hire you.
14:02Some even cling to the camps when they could freely leave.
14:07But the Sharomas try to heed wisdom from their ancestral home.
14:12We have a phrase that we hear all the time.
14:15It's called Shigataganai.
14:18It means it couldn't be helped.
14:20It's something that happened.
14:23And you let it go.
14:25That will be easier for some than others.
14:32In another desert of the American West, B-29 crews line up for inspection.
14:39He told us that we were in an outfit that might end the war.
14:45Then, they prepare for a high-stakes game of target practice.
14:53The Trinity test ushered in the atomic age.
14:59But no one knows how to drop such a big bomb out of a plane.
15:06So, B-29s take off with dummy bombs called pumpkins to drop onto the desert.
15:19I guess they just plowed up these tumbleweeds so we could see a target.
15:27From more than five and a half miles up, they let it go.
15:34On the ground, experts observe the bomb's dynamics.
15:38The first ones tumble.
15:40Then they change the tail fins.
15:44People from Los Alamos were down there timing how long it would take them to fall.
15:50Someone joked that they stood in the center of the target because they felt that would be the safest place.
15:58It's not a bullseye.
16:00But with the real bomb, it might not matter.
16:11On August 5th, another air crew prepares for a run on Japan.
16:17It's becoming almost routine.
16:24This is the 345th Bombardment Group, nicknamed the Air Apaches.
16:33They're on Yeshima, a little island off Okinawa that's now a bustling air base.
16:39The target is the town of Turumizu, just 430 miles away.
16:52Captain John Hanna films the action himself.
16:57With Japan unable to mount much of a defense,
17:02Hanna's plane can scrape the rooflines.
17:09They make runs on a coastal factory that makes rocket-propelled suicide planes.
17:17And they firebomb nearby homes to cripple the workers as much as their workplace.
17:34The 345th returns to base with a few scratches from anti-aircraft fire.
17:44Turumizu is wrecked.
17:48Today's raid is 325 planes and thousands of bombs.
17:54Tomorrow, it'll be just one.
17:58This is a train of experience.
18:14Teenager Yamaoka Machiko is on her way to downtown Hiroshima.
18:22I was in the third year of high school.
18:26I left the house around 7.45.
18:38From the island of Tinian, Colonel Paul Tibbetts is on his way to Japan.
18:46We had lulled the Japanese into a sense of false security.
18:53For a week, I sent a single airplane up over these targets.
19:01I wanted them to think we were reconnaissance planes.
19:18I wasn't particularly afraid when B-29s flew overhead.
19:23I looked up to see if I could spot them.
19:28That was the moment.
19:37There was no sound.
19:41I felt colors.
19:46I remember my body floating in the air.
19:52I don't know how far I was blown.
19:57I tried to say something, but my voice couldn't come out.
20:04I said to myself, goodbye, Mom.
20:10Below the mushroom cloud, it was black and boiling underneath, like a boiling pot of tar.
20:21Fires burst out from just the light itself.
20:27Nobody looked like a human being.
20:32People couldn't scream.
20:34People couldn't scream.
20:37They just sat, catching fire.
20:50By that time, we were out over the water and on our way back home.
20:56It was an easy flight.
21:03I didn't have the ability to visualize what this thing really was.
21:10There was no measure, no scale by which to judge this thing.
21:20As Tibbetts lines up for a medal, rumors swirl about the damage in Hiroshima.
21:27The guys came in with their eyes wide open and asked,
21:32Jesus, is this true?
21:39A few days later, Americans roll out another atomic bomb,
21:45even bigger in size and power.
21:49They name it Fat Man.
21:54Inside is a lump of plutonium about the size of a softball.
22:02They seal the seams to keep moisture away from the delicate components inside.
22:10Since the bomb hit Hiroshima, Japan has sent no message to the outside world.
22:17It is silent.
22:20As if in shock.
22:23So Americans load up Fat Man.
22:27And head for the next target.
22:30The city of Kokura.
22:41When the B-29s arrive, Kokura is socked in, with clouds and smoke from burning cities.
22:52They peel off for their secondary target.
23:01A Scottish P.O.W. is in a prison camp nearby.
23:07I saw a plane flying.
23:10Two minutes later came a tremendous clap of thunder from Nagasaki.
23:26A gale force wind nearly knocked me over.
23:34Japan isn't sure what's hitting them.
23:44America isn't sure what it's unleashing.
23:51Only those under the mushroom cloud really know.
23:56But the world will soon find out.
24:15The next day, the Japanese contact the Swiss, who pass messages to the Americans.
24:21Even as their carriers launch more raids.
24:27Meanwhile, the Soviet Union invades Manchuria, opening another front Japan can barely defend.
24:38Days go by, as each side deliberates, and translates, and negotiates.
24:59On August 13th, 1,000 carrier planes make their final dive on Tokyo.
25:08In 1942, this would have been impossible.
25:15Now, it's unstoppable.
25:25A scratchy recording of a strange voice goes out over Japanese airwaves.
25:32It's Emperor Hirohito.
25:35Revered as a distant god-like figure, he has never addressed the public.
25:40Until now.
25:42We have decided to affect the settlement of the present situation by resorting to an extraordinary measure.
25:50He uses an archaic Japanese dialect that few can understand.
25:55But soon, the news becomes clear.
26:00Japan surrenders.
26:08The world gasps in a moment of disbelief.
26:12The world gasps in a moment of disbelief.
26:16Coming out of Tokyo, that Emperor Hirohito has accepted the terms of surrender as drafted by the world.
26:22The world gasps.
26:28Then exhales in relief.
26:31Then exhales in relief.
26:52And begin to coast.
27:00We had our ship loaded.
27:02Totally loaded for us to invade.
27:06We got the message.
27:08I ran up to the bridge.
27:09We're a good friend with Signalman.
27:11It's spelled out.
27:13War is over.
27:18The captain announced.
27:20It's against naval regulations,
27:21but all hands can lay down to the scullery
27:24for toucans appear.
27:38All across the Pacific,
27:40men slated for the final assault
27:42get the news of their lives.
27:47I guarantee you there was a lot of relief.
27:52I don't know how many of us
27:53would have survived the invasion of Japan,
27:55but not very many, I don't think.
28:03In the Philippines,
28:06word slowly gets out.
28:11Serviceman Dan Rockland films a nation
28:14slowly rising from its knees.
28:28From every corner of their fallen empire,
28:32Japanese who fought from the shadows
28:34finally emerge into daylight.
28:41They started coming in
28:43and putting their rifles down.
28:46That was the end of them.
28:49We fell from heaven to hell
28:52overnight.
28:54Men who spent the last three and a half years
28:57trying to annihilate each other
28:59are now facing each other.
29:01The Japs all came in from the jungle
29:04and gave us their swords.
29:07Of course,
29:08all our officers got the good ones.
29:12In China,
29:14Japanese troops are herded into boxcars.
29:17A demoralizing start
29:19to their long journey home.
29:22I experienced the collapse of our nation.
29:25It was really worse than dying.
29:30In Japan,
29:32there is shock
29:33and shame.
29:39Nobody truly thought
29:40Japan would lose.
29:44Since its ancient beginnings
29:46in the first century,
29:47it is never known
29:49a foreign occupation.
29:53The pride of empire
29:55disintegrates into a cloud of fear.
30:04They arrive in white planes.
30:08The color of surrender
30:10at General MacArthur's insistence.
30:14He doesn't want any mistaken identity.
30:19The rising sun
30:21has been replaced
30:22by a green cross.
30:29The Japanese delegation emerges.
30:34They've just landed in the Philippines
30:36to meet with MacArthur.
30:40The future of Japan
30:42is now under negotiation.
30:47MacArthur welcomes
30:48allies of every stripe.
30:52A global array
30:53of military uniforms
30:55marches into Manila.
30:58They will talk all night
31:00over hastily translated
31:02maps and documents.
31:04And they settle on a date
31:06to formally conclude
31:08the Pacific War.
31:17A distant Mount Fuji
31:19presides over Tokyo Bay.
31:24For all the thousands
31:26on board the USS Missouri,
31:29the focus is on one man.
31:33Now supreme commander
31:35for the Allied powers.
31:38I had received
31:39no instructions
31:40as to what to say
31:41or what to do.
31:44I was on my own.
31:46Standing on the quarter deck
31:48with only God
31:49in my own conscience
31:50to guide me.
31:53MacArthur stands
31:55to face the Japanese delegation
31:57and stakes his claim.
32:00I announce it
32:02my firm purpose
32:03to proceed
32:04in the discharge
32:05of my responsibilities
32:06with justice
32:08and tolerance
32:08to ensure
32:09that the terms
32:11of surrender
32:12are fully,
32:14promptly,
32:15and faithfully
32:16complied with.
32:20Finally,
32:21in the calm
32:22of a sea salt breeze,
32:25the incessant pounding
32:26of the Pacific War
32:28ceases
32:28with the quiet
32:31scrawls
32:31of solemn signatures.
32:38The ceremony
32:39ends with a ferocious roar.
32:43A flyover
32:45of nearly 500 B-29s.
32:52now both sides
32:54have to make
32:55a sudden turn
32:56from combat
32:57to cooperation.
33:00A lasting peace
33:01in the Pacific
33:02is at stake.
33:15Just weeks earlier,
33:17this was the plan.
33:21An all-out
33:22full-force charge
33:24into the drawn swords
33:25of a 2,000-year-old empire.
33:30Instead,
33:32the Allies
33:32approach unarmed.
33:38We didn't have
33:39any ammunition.
33:42MacArthur did not want
33:43any incidents.
33:45Not one incident.
33:53thousands of troops
33:54pour onto the soil
33:56of their sworn enemy
33:57without firing,
34:00without ducking,
34:02without dying.
34:08Japanese disarmed
34:10themselves
34:10under Allied supervision.
34:15Americans look right
34:16into the jaws
34:17of what awaited them.
34:20From the waterline
34:21to Tokyo,
34:22every yard of it
34:23was entrenched
34:24and barricaded
34:25with tunnels
34:26and caverns.
34:28It would have been
34:29a bloodbath.
34:32Americans are fascinated
34:34with the war's
34:35opposing perspective.
34:37They play with guns
34:39that were once
34:39aimed at them.
34:42They find a Japanese
34:43ship with Allied planes
34:45painted on the side.
34:47A cheat sheet
34:48for gunners.
34:51And one takes a tour
34:53of a Japanese sub.
34:56I'm sure they hated us.
34:58But some of them
34:59tried to introduce
35:00some sort of
35:01incipient friendship.
35:04As if,
35:05in the back of their minds,
35:06they recognized that
35:07we were humans
35:09just like they were.
35:16The victors
35:18are now fully ashore.
35:23Next,
35:24come the vanquished.
35:34seven million Japanese
35:35have been spread
35:37across Asia
35:37and the Pacific,
35:40fighting for the homeland
35:42they remember.
35:52some have been gone
35:54for years
35:55with no idea
35:56what their nation
35:57has endured.
36:06Face masks
36:07and a blast of DDT
36:09stave off the import
36:10of disease.
36:14But there's no cure
36:16for the shock
36:17of defeat.
36:21Japanese citizens
36:22imagined their enemies
36:24as ruthless barbarians.
36:27Now,
36:27these foreign armies
36:29are walking among them.
36:37they turned their backs
36:38to us
36:39and hung their heads.
36:40I asked the interpreter,
36:42what are they doing?
36:44He said,
36:45that's the sign
36:46of submission.
36:51Allies bombed
36:53and blockaded
36:53the Japanese
36:54into starvation.
36:57Now,
36:58they unload
36:58sea rations.
37:02We didn't intend
37:03to feed them forever.
37:05We needed to make Japan
37:07self-sufficient
37:08as soon as it was
37:09humanly possible.
37:14This
37:14is a tall order.
37:19Much of Japan
37:21is simply not there anymore.
37:26Tokyo
37:27is half gone.
37:38from mile
37:39after mile
37:40it looks like
37:41a forest
37:42clear-cut down
37:43to stumps.
37:53Rebuilding
37:53is a job
37:54too immense
37:55for many
37:55for many
37:55to grasp.
37:59So they simply
38:00get to it
38:02with picks
38:04and shovels
38:06and bare hands.
38:10In two cities,
38:12it's even worse.
38:17we flew
38:19directly over
38:20Nagasaki.
38:22From ground zero,
38:25everything
38:25radiated out
38:26360 degrees.
38:32We went to
38:34Hiroshima.
38:35You can't imagine.
38:37for miles,
38:40there was nothing.
38:42Nothing left.
38:46This city
38:48was burned down
38:49to the sidewalks.
38:54But the bomb's
38:55lasting impact
38:56is not in the
38:57rubble of
38:58brick and mortar.
38:59It's in the
39:00scars
39:00of mind
39:01and body.
39:07Inside hospitals
39:08are injuries
39:09beyond anyone's
39:10training.
39:16anyone within
39:17half a mile
39:18was instantly
39:19scorched.
39:22Two miles
39:23away,
39:24skin
39:24spontaneously
39:25ignited.
39:31Hiroshima
39:32teenager
39:32Yamaoka
39:33Michiko
39:34survives,
39:35but then
39:37has to
39:37endure.
39:39people threw
39:40stones at me
39:41and called
39:42me monster.
39:44Once my mom
39:46tried to
39:46choke me
39:47to death.
39:49If a girl
39:50has a face
39:51you couldn't
39:52be born with,
39:53I understand
39:54that even
39:55a mother
39:56could want
39:57to kill
39:57her child.
40:01In Hiroshima,
40:02few families
40:03are intact.
40:05Mourners'
40:06grieve
40:07had overcrowded
40:08cemeteries.
40:10No one
40:10knows when
40:11or if
40:12a new
40:13Japan
40:14will emerge
40:14from the
40:15atomic shadow.
40:21We'd hoped
40:22for this moment
40:22for years
40:23and dreamt
40:24that one day
40:25it might arrive.
40:27But we'd never
40:28known
40:28that it would.
40:31140,000
40:32allied prisoners
40:33of war
40:34take their
40:35first steps
40:36toward home.
40:40From a
40:41POW camp
40:42in Thailand
40:42they board
40:44flights to
40:45Vietnam.
40:49An old hotel
40:50in Saigon
40:51puts them up
40:52and it feels
40:54like the Ritz.
40:57In Singapore,
41:00Sikh soldiers
41:00from India
41:01come out of
41:02captivity
41:03U.S. troops
41:05salute their
41:06freedom.
41:09In the
41:09Philippines,
41:11Japan had
41:12called its
41:1290,000
41:13prisoners of war
41:14guests of the
41:16empire.
41:19Now,
41:20they hitch rides
41:21and join
41:22convoys
41:23to carry them
41:24away from
41:25despair
41:26toward hope.
41:35in Japan
41:36in Japan
41:37itself
41:3836,000
41:39POWs
41:40have endured
41:41darkness
41:41and decay.
41:46We had to
41:47carry 90%
41:48of them
41:49out on
41:49stretchers.
41:51Some of their
41:52bones were
41:52sticking through
41:54their skin.
41:57former captives
41:59flood the
41:59streets
42:00getting their
42:01first sips
42:02of freedom
42:06and their
42:06first crack
42:07at the
42:08all-you-can-eat
42:09mess tent.
42:14They begin
42:15the long
42:16journey home
42:19lucky to be
42:20alive.
42:26more than
42:27a quarter
42:28of western
42:28allied POWs
42:30died in
42:30captivity.
42:33Japan planned
42:35to execute
42:35the rest.
42:37All these
42:38men,
42:39once the
42:40land invasion
42:40began.
42:44Some had
42:45dug their
42:46own mass
42:46graves.
42:51We talked
42:52about what
42:53we were
42:53going to
42:53do
42:54when we
42:54got home.
42:57Who we
42:58couldn't
42:58wait to
42:59see.
43:01And how
43:02all the
43:03problems
43:03of normal
43:04life
43:04could never
43:05bother us
43:06again.
43:07Not after
43:08what we'd
43:08been through.
43:20We picked
43:21up over
43:22a thousand
43:23military
43:23personnel.
43:25The ship
43:26was so
43:27crowded.
43:28But nobody
43:30complained.
43:31We were
43:32homeward bound.
43:35They crave
43:36family.
43:38My mother
43:39thought I
43:40had been
43:40killed.
43:42When I
43:42was in
43:43Hawaii, I
43:44called her
43:44and told
43:45her I
43:45was fine.
43:46Then I
43:47hit the
43:48bars and
43:48saw the
43:49girls.
43:53They crave
43:54the
43:54familiar.
43:57When we
43:57got to
43:58San Francisco,
43:59people were
43:59throwing
44:00flowers.
44:01There
44:02was a
44:02big sign.
44:04Welcome
44:04home.
44:14They crave
44:15home cooking.
44:19In
44:19Tarawa, we
44:20ate nothing but
44:21crushed pineapple
44:22and canned
44:22Vienna sausage.
44:24I ate
44:25enough Vienna
44:26sausage to
44:27make a rope
44:27and swing
44:28me home.
44:35finally,
44:36they crave
44:37normalcy.
44:39The first
44:40thing after I
44:40got discharged,
44:42I went
44:42straight to
44:43a department
44:43store.
44:44I bought
44:45me a
44:45whole
44:45suit of
44:46civilian
44:46clothes,
44:47from head
44:48to foot,
44:49and I
44:50put it
44:50on right
44:51there.
44:53Maybe I
44:53shouldn't
44:54say this,
44:54but I
44:55just took
44:55my uniform
44:56and dropped
44:57it in the
44:57garbage
44:58and walked
44:58down out.
45:00That was
45:01one happy
45:02day.
45:08The trains
45:10were running
45:13and the
45:14streetcars
45:15were running.
45:16The Japanese
45:18were very
45:18busy.
45:21A new
45:22Japan
45:23begins to
45:24rise out
45:24of the
45:25rubble.
45:27MacArthur
45:27guides the
45:28occupation
45:29without appearing
45:30as an
45:31overlord.
45:32I advise
45:33the Japanese
45:34people to
45:35seek a
45:35healthy blend
45:36between the
45:37best of
45:37theirs and
45:38the best
45:38of ours.
45:40He opens
45:41civil liberties
45:45and religious
45:46freedoms
45:47beyond the
45:47deep
45:48traditions
45:48of Shinto
45:49and Buddhism.
45:53He also
45:54floods the
45:54country with
45:5510 million
45:56free Bibles.
46:02Baseball
46:03is already
46:03a pastime
46:04both countries
46:05enjoy.
46:08MacArthur's
46:09own home
46:09movies capture
46:10his wife
46:11Jean taking
46:12in a Japanese
46:12ball game.
46:15Once,
46:16she even
46:17throws out
46:17the first
46:18pitch.
46:22The USO
46:23reaches its
46:24final stage
46:25with Danny
46:27K playing it
46:28up for
46:28occupation
46:29troops.
46:37Markets get
46:38busier.
46:45people get
46:47friendlier.
46:51A new
46:52openness
46:53slowly blossoms.
47:02MacArthur allows
47:04Hirokito to remain
47:05emperor.
47:06he goes from
47:07recluse to public
47:09figure.
47:14Kids who would not
47:15dare look him
47:16in the eye
47:16now surround him
47:18with cheers.
47:24Here, he makes
47:25his first visit
47:26to Hiroshima
47:27to honor the bomb
47:28victims.
47:33war.
47:33It's December 7th, 1947.
47:37Exactly six years
47:39after the attack
47:39on Pearl Harbor
47:40sparked the
47:41Pacific War.
47:48Japan, the land of
47:50Fujisan, is one of the
47:52most interesting of all
47:53countries to visit.
47:54To help the rebuilding
47:57effort, America begins
47:59encouraging travel to the
48:00country it just
48:01defeated.
48:03Tourism brings cash and
48:05cultural exchange, two
48:07things they hope can bring
48:08Japan into the family of
48:10free nations.
48:12Travel films promise a
48:14land of exotic sights and
48:16sounds.
48:21But with enough western
48:23touches to attract the
48:24skittish.
48:26Tourism is the new
48:28post-war propaganda.
48:30The message may be
48:31pandering, but it does
48:33hint at the promise.
48:48From the edges of a vast
48:50ocean, and from the
48:54ashes of its great
48:55cataclysm, new
48:59generations will begin
49:00bridging the Great
49:01Pacific Divide.
49:05But for this
49:06generation, it will
49:07never again be the
49:09peaceful sea.
49:16I wonder what war is.
49:21I wonder why we did it.
49:25I'm not talking about
49:27victory or loss.
49:29I merely feel heartbroken
49:32for those who died.
49:36However much you're
49:37glorified, if you're
49:40dead, that's it.
49:51People always say, this
49:53movie was realistic.
50:03War is something you
50:05don't get in any movie.
50:10The pungent odor of
50:12decaying bodies.
50:17The constant clatter of
50:19automatic weapons.
50:24Suspenseful waiting.
50:29Then the impact of
50:31whispering artillery
50:32shells.
50:36Screams of the wounded
50:38and dying.
50:43The overwhelming smell of
50:45gunpowder.
50:51You don't get any of that
50:52in a movie.
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