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Welcome to World War Two chronicles a
weekly tribute to Americas fighting men and women

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in commemoration of the Second World War. These programs are narrated by Ed Hurlahy

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and are based on the news broadcasts
of the war period from the recorded sound

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collection of the National Archives in Washington, d C. Escorted by American aircraft

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two Japanese planes painted white and carrying
green identifying crosses. Just a General Magarthur

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has instructed set down offshore from Okinawa. This is the transfer point for Manila,

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where Bitter Tea awaits the Japs.
Lieutenant General Kawabe, vice Chief of

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the Nipaneese General Staff, leads the
surrender party. The reception, minus the

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presence of General Magarthur is distinctly on
the Chili side. This is complete capitulation,

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something the stun Japs have yet to
realize to its full extent. Meanwhile,

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there I means throughout Asia and the
Pacific are crumbling in surrender. Allied

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Supreme Commander MacArthur, getting ready for
the Tokyo takeover, throws this out to

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the troops in front of Manilla's City
Hall. Very shortly, I trust we'll

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all be going home on the necks
of the USS Missouri in Tokyo obey.

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The Japanese delegation signs the formal surrendered
documents. Military chiefs from each of the

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victorious allied powers do the same,
General McArthur, we are gathered here representatives

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of the major rowing powers, to
compute a solemn agreement, whereby peace may

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be restored. Is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind.

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Upon this column occasion eight. But
our world shalymerge out of the blood

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and carnage of the past. In
Washington, President Truman offers thanks and urges

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Americans to work as diligently in peace
as they have in war. To all

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of us, there comes first a
sense of gratitude to Almighty God, who

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sustained us and our allies in the
dark days of grave danger, who made

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us to grow from weakness into the
strongest fighting force in history, and who

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now has seen us overcome the forces
of tyranny that sought to destroy his civilization.

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God grant that, in our pride
of the hour, we may not

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forget the hard tasks that are still
before us, that we may approach these

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with the same courage. Zeal And
patience with which we faced the trials and

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problems of the past. For a
year, I'm ed hernehe with World War

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Two Chronicles. World War Two Chronicles
was produced by the American Veterans Center and

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Radio America in cooperation with the National
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