[Music] Against all expectations, the Japanese give ground again.

Only one overriding condition remains.

Their emperor must be allowed to stay in power.

[Music] The Americans signal that if the Supreme Commander of Allied forces, General Douglas MacArthur, is placed in overall command of Japan, they will allow the emperor to stay.

The two sides finally agree terms of surrender in early August.

On the quarter deck of the battleship USS Missouri, the Japanese delegation, including Foreign Minister Mamuru Shigamitsu, signed the formal document of surrender.

[Music] [Applause] Finally, it’s over.

Peace has arrived.

[Applause] [Music] [Music] Countless lives have been lost in one of the most bloody campaigns of World War II.

It’s seen the arrival of new and frightening weapons and tactics, including the ultimate game changer in the atom bomb.

[Music] In the end, it is a catastrophe for the Japanese.

The cost for them is 2 million lives, of which 1.

74 million are military.

The American nation has fought for 4 years and buried nearly half a million men.

In the Pacific, 55,145 men were lost from the Army, 29,263 from the Navy, and 19,163 Marines.

[Music] But out of all this, new adversaries emerge in an epic struggle to master such devastating power.

While the Japanese nation must rebuild its shattered and scarred country and learn to come to terms with a calamitous war that began in the waters of Hawaii and ended in rubble and ash.

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