Stop Press - Japan Cracks!
Series
- Series Name
- Pathe Gazette
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Summary
- Crowds in Piccadilly as Japanese surrender is announced. Chinese rush out from Ley On’s restaurant in Wardour Street. Flashbacks showing Emperor Hirohito and Pearl Harbour. Map of Japan showing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two places where atom bombs were dropped. Backroom boys working on the effects of 12,000 lb bombs. Street interviews. Service chiefs meet at No 10. Sir John Anderson speaks on the immediate and future [effects?] of the atomic bomb.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Politics and government; Weapons; Navy; Military
- Locations
- London; Piccadilly
- Length of story (in feet)
- 324
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