A brief look, through video, photographic and audio archives, of the beginning and the end of America’s involvement in WWII.
Roosevelt warns Germany.
Pearl Harbor bulletin during NFL radio broadcast.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cYDg4FqlBEc
Pearl Harbor, radio bulletins.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D-asDrt7ZMc
Live report from Honolulu during attack.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JBDbrf6Nktk
War declared by U.S. Americans heed the call.
German surrender.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nV-go1cuzgE
Near war’s end, Truman warns Japan, Give up or else.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=InTPC6oylK8
Truman announces first atomic bomb, Hiroshima.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FN_UJJ9ObDs
CBS announcement, Hiroshima. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iXpikaEb8cA
Hiroshima
Then Nagasaki
Japan surrenders.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjwtTHdAZI
Allies meet on USS Missouri.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NRe6H1JRTzU
McArthur formally accepts Japan’s surrender.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7incPwTOxI
None of it was pretty. We lost many great and irreplaceable Americans. But there’s nothing for America to be ashamed of. We were attacked. The Axis powers brought death and destruction upon themselves. That was the only sensible way to prosecute that war.