Traditional Ninja Weapons (4:21)
Check out the kinds of weapons used by ninjas including kusari-gama and shuriken in this video clip with History's Mail Call host R. Lee Ermey.
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Traditional Ninja Weapons
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Check out the kinds of weapons used by ninjas including kusari-gama and shuriken in this video clip with History's Mail Call host R. Lee Ermey.
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Atomic Bomb Ends WWII
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The U.S. looked to a new weapon to put an end to WWII.
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Coroner's Report: Seppuku
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Seppuku was a ritual form of suicide used by samurai warriors to avoid surrender or atone for a shameful act. What were their painful final moments really like?
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Kamikaze Pilots
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Learn the meaning of "kamikaze" and find out how Japan convinced thousands of kamikaze pilots to fly to their deaths.
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Terry's Commentary on Samurai Showdown
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Terry Schappert shares his special affinity for Japanese culture in his commentary on Samurai Showdown.
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The Naked Underground: Female Samurai
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In this video clip from The Naked Underground, Don Whitman is in Japan. He is dressed in a samurai suit, and participates in medieval combat with a female samurai. In the end, his loss means he has to pay honor to the female samurai.
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Samurai: Deconstructed
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The Samurai were fearsome warriors whose traditions of honor and discipline live on in the study of jujitsu and kendo today.
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Coroner's Report: Atomic Bomb
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In August 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What happened to people on the fringes of the blasts?
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A6M Zero Fighter Plane
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Find out how the world's first strategic fighter plane, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, allowed the Japanese to achieve air superiority in World War II, at least until the Allied planes came along.
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Truman Announces Japan's Surrender
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On September 1, 1945, in a radio address to the American people, President Harry Truman announces the unconditional surrender of Japan, formalized aboard the U.S.S. Missouri.
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Paul Tibbets on Dropping the Atomic Bomb
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On July 3, 1987, 42 years after dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets recalls his mindset during the fateful mission on August 6, 1945.
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Battle for the Marshall Islands
Battle for the Marshall IslandsAudio Clip (2:21)
Audio Clip (2:21)
In a live recording, Sgt. Fred Walker gives a blow-by-blow description of a battle with Japanese forces as he lands on one of the Marshall Island atolls in the Pacific with the Marines Fifth Amphibian Corps in 1944.
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Firsthand Account of Hiroshima Bombing
Firsthand Account of Hiroshima BombingAudio Clip (3:33)
Audio Clip (3:33)
A Catholic missionary who had been living near Hiroshima at the time the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on the city on August 6, 1945, delivers a firsthand account to Marine Corps radio correspondent Sgt. Eddie Pendergast.
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Eyewitness Account of Hiroshima Bombing
Eyewitness Account of Hiroshima BombingAudio Clip (3:34)
Audio Clip (3:34)
In an interview for the United States Strategic Bombing Survey in December 1945, Kaleria Palchikoff Drago, a Russian immigrant living in Japan, gives an eyewitness account of August 6, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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U.S. Goals in World War II
U.S. Goals in World War IIAudio Clip (0:31)
Audio Clip (0:31)
In his speech delivered July 23, 1942, Secretary of State Cordell Hull explains the aims of the United States in World War II.
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War Report on B-29 Use
War Report on B-29 UseAudio Clip (2:36)
Audio Clip (2:36)
Brig. Gen. H.S. Hansell delivers a report in June 1944 on American B-29 bomber strikes against Germany and Japan.
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Pearl Harbor Attack
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Audio Clip (1:30)
Shortly after Japanese bombers attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, NBC radio reporter H. V. Kaltenborn brings the nation up to date as the events play out in the Pacific.
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Douglas MacArthur Receives the Japanese Surrender
Douglas MacArthur Receives the Japanese SurrenderAudio Clip (1:21)
Audio Clip (1:21)
On September 2, 1945, aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, World War II comes to a close when Japanese officials sign the unconditional surrender. Gen. Douglas MacArthur presides over the signing and delivers a short speech on the momentous occasion.
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