[MacGyverGod]

Welcome to chapter 11 of the story that is nearing his end. In the last chapter our Stargate Company succeeded in freeing Europe from the Nazi threat. So technically spoken the war is over for the most part in the world. The three pact between Nazi-Germany, Italy and Japan is broken. Italy joined the Allies, Nazi-Germany has been defeated. The only threat now is the Empire of Japan, those responsible for America's involvement in World War II. While trying to retaliate on Japan for Pearl Harbor, America uses a weapon that sounds off a new era and a whole new kind in warfare. We all know what this is about. That's right, nuclear bombs. Enjoy!!!

(We fade in as the texts of Headlines VIII appears and the track Dixie from North and South starts playing)
Headlines VIII
April 1945 – May 1945

Roosevelt dies at the eve of victory

April 12 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt died to the consequences of a brain bleeding. While he was resting in the health resort Warm Springs in Georgia, the American president complained of headache. A few hours, he passed away. When Mrs. Roosevelt was notified about the death of her husband, she said: ‘I feel more sorry for the peoples of this country and the world, than with ourselves’.

Hitler commits suicide

April 30 1945
Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker underneath the garden of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. He refused to flee out of the German capital on request of his generals. While Soviet grenades and rockets flew through the airspace in the Battle of Berlin, Hitler married yesterday with Eva Braun, the woman who has been his mistress since 1932. Hitler and Braun retreated to their private barracks and both of them bit in deadly cyanide capsules. At the same time Hitler shot himself through the head. Their bodies were carried to the garden by the staff, poured with petroleum and burned, together with big piles of Nazi-documents. Only ten days ago Hitler celebrated his fifty-sixth birthday.

Secrets of the death camps revealed

April 30 1945
Allied troops discovered the horrible truth of the Nazi-concentration camps. Hundreds of thousands Jews were trained by the Nazis and send to concentration camps all over Europe as a part of Hitler’s ‘Endlösung’, that tried to exterminate the Jewish race. Political, religious and sexual undesired individuals were looking at a similar prosecution. The Russian, British and American soldiers that freed death camps like Belsen, Treblinka and Auschwitz, found mass graves with high piles of rotting corpses. The survivors ware often not more than walking skeletons. They described how the captives were divided by arrival. Most of them were led to the ‘shower rooms’ to be gassed. Others were supposed to do slaves work. When they were weakened by hunger and unworthy living circumstance, they also got gassed. Women and children were forced into prostitution and in some camps they experimented on the captives by Nazi-scientists. However the liberators are doing everything they can to save them, scrawny captives die everyday with hundreds of them. The allies knew that the camps existed for years, but were so busy with strategic campaigns that they never became the target of bombardments.

Montgomery accepts German surrender

May 4 1945
In a tent on the desolate Luneburg moor, south of Hamburg in Germany, the first German army forces has surrender to field marshal Montgomery. It’s about all the German troops in Northwest Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark. The allies expect the definitive surrender of the German chief command in the following days.

Allies victorious

May 7 1945
Germany has ultimately surrendered to the allies at 2.41 a.m. The German chief command ultimately surrender in a small brick school in the French Reims. General Bedell Smith signed for the allies on the western hemisphere and general Ivan Suslapatov witnessed for the Soviet Union. Since than the German troops are surrendering in packs to the allies.

Europe celebrates

May 8 1945
Grey skies and drizzling rain didn’t ruin the British VE-Day parties. (Victory in Europe). In London an insane crowd flooded to Buckingham Palace to cheer to the royal family. During nightfall the British capital appeared on fire by the search lights and fireworks that has been fired for the first time since the war broke out in 1939. On street parties all over the country images of Adolf Hitler and his associates has been thrown on the stakes to celebrate the ending of Nazi-Germany. The same scenes are happening in Paris and in Rome. On the Red Square in Moscow the taken German flags were thrown on a pile in front of the feet of the Soviet leaders.
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Chapter 11
The Last Assignment
Tinian – Island of Commonwealth
Northern Marianas Islands
14°59’51”N, 145°37’39”E
August 6 1945
Dawn

It was Sunday morning, August 6 1945 when the remains of the Stargate Company, O’ Neill, Neill, Jack and me reported on a military base located on an island called Tinian, sister island of Saipan. Under Japanese administration this island was mostly known as a sugar plantation. Tinian was captured by the United States in July 1944 during the battle of Tinian. We were there for our last assignment of World War II. Though the war was over for the most of us since the fall of Berlin at the end of April, begin May and Germany signed his Instrument of Surrender, the end of World War II was confirmed for the most part in Europe. Now that Nazi-Germany, a whole world order is gone there was still the Japanese Empire threat. After six months of intense firebombing on sixty-seven Japanese cities, the Empire has refused to sign the Instrument of Surrender. Japan was responsible for pulling the United States into the war. Almost four years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, in the greatest secrecy a bomb was developed on nuclear energy. The first one of it’s kind. This project was called the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was the project to develop the first nuclear bomb during World War II by the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Formally designated as Manhattan Engineer District, (MED), under control of the US Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves. The scientific research was directed by American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project’s roots lay in the fears of the scientists since the 1930’s that Nazi Germany was also investigating nuclear weapons of its own. But when Nazi Germany was defeated, they appeared to be years away of a working prototype. So the use of the bomb seemed pointless, but now there appears to be a new target. Born out of a small research program in 1939, the Manhattan Project eventually employed more than 130,000 people and cost nearly two billion USD. It resulted in the creation of multiple production and research sites that operated in secret.
The four of us were sitting now in a briefing room with Generals Thornton and Hammond filling us in on our next assignment.
‘Gentlemen,’ Hammond began, ‘ten days ago we outlined the Potsdam Declaration in outlining the terms of surrender for Japan. Presented as an ultimatum that stated that without surrender, the Allies would attack Japan resulting in “the inevitable and complete destruction of the Japanese armed forces and just as inevitably utter devastation of the Japanese homeland.” This declaration has been rejected by the Japanese government on July the 28th.’
‘The statement of ignoring has been taken by Japanese and foreign newspapers as a clear rejection of the declaration,’ General Thornton continued.
‘The Empire of Japan is the only lasting threat in the final days of the war. If we can make Japan surrender the war will be completely over. You’re all aware of the Manhattan Project. A project involving the development of a nuclear bomb. Two have been made so far. We’ll be calling them Little Boy and Fat Man.’
‘Sir, do you think it’s wise to use a bomb with nuclear parts in them?’ I asked. ‘Very little is known about it and what the effects might be on the world.’
‘Major MacGyver, President Truman has reconsidered his decision about using the bomb. We may only use them if the president says so. And he has made his decision to use them. His intention in ordering the bombings is to bring out a quick resolution of the war inflicting destruction and instilling fear of further destruction in sufficient strength to cause Japan to surrender.’
I didn’t say any more. This was clearly the president’s orders.
‘Your target is the Aioi Bridge in the city of Hiroshima. It’s a city of industrial and military significance it serves as a minor supply and logistics base for the Japanese military. During the war it was spared for the most part of the conventional bombings.’
‘Since that city is still damage free, we can clearly check out the effects of the atom bomb,’ General Thornton said.
‘Sir, how do these bombs work?’ Neill asked.
‘Once the bomb is dropped a nuclear chain reaction occurs,’ General Hammond explained.
‘Nuclear reactions? What does that mean?’
‘The nuclear reaction is the process that occurs when two nuclear particles collide to produce products different from the initial particles. In principal a reaction can involve more than two particles colliding but that’s rare.’
‘Now, in these bombs energy is stored that will be released in a short amount of time. The release of the energy happens during the chain reaction. Once the bomb is armed and dropped the chain reaction occurs and the reaction will lead to the explosion. So when you’ve dropped it get the hell out of there.’
‘Private Dalton, you’re appointed to be the pilot of the aircraft Superfortress B-29 Enola Gay,’ General Hammond said.
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Colonel O’ Neill, you’re the co-pilot. MacGyver and Neill, you will be the ones to put everything on film.’
‘Yes sir,’ Neill said.
‘To film?’ I asked. ‘We have to go up there to film?’
‘Yes, with this camera,’ General Thornton said showing us the camera. ‘Document as much as you can, it might be important for later bombings.’
‘Sirs, what’s the course we have to take?’ O’ Neill asked.
‘You will take off on the North Field airbase on Tinian in the West Pacific and you will be accompanied by two other B-29s called The Great Artiste which carries instrumentation and a photography aircraft.’
‘So Neill and I belong on another aircraft?’ I asked.
‘Not exactly, the more we have on film the better that’s why we send another filming crew with you. You belong on the Enola Gay, which is the name of Colonel Paul Tibbets mother. He was supposed to fly today but unfortunately for us he and his team called in sick. That’s why we’re sending you guys.’
‘The other aircrafts will be commanded by Major Charles Sweeney and Captain George Marquardt. When you have taken off, you will fly on separate ways to Iwo Jima where you will have a rendezvous point at eight thousand feet (2,440 m). From there on you will set course on to Japan. When you are in Hiroshima’s airspace you must drop the bomb at thirty-two thousand feet (9,855 m). Than you return back to base.’
‘Is this mission understood?’ General Thornton asked.
‘Yes, sir,’ we acknowledged.
‘Good. Now one more thing. Take these eye caps with you for protection and good luck with your mission. Dismissed.’
‘Are you guys ready for this?’ I asked.
‘We are,’ Neill said.
We were brought to the Enola Gay, where they were loading in the bomb. This had to happen via a hatch in the ground and an elevator because the bomb was too heavy to carry. The bomb got loaded and they were giving us further instructions on how the handle the bomb.
‘Alright, listen up. Arm the bomb thirty minutes from the drop off, only than and take off the safety devices than too. OK?’ one of the loading peoples said.
‘Got it,’ O’ Neill acknowledged.
‘OK, good luck!’
‘You better go, now!’ General Hammond said. ‘We’ve sent some aircraft to the South of Japan to cause an “air raid” so that the air alarm would sound off. That’s when you come in.’
Again he wished us good luck and than we left for our final mission.

Just as planned we flew on separate ways to Iwo Jima. It wasn’t that very long, half an hour or forty-five minutes at most and than we had our rendezvous with the other planes at eight thousand feet. And than we flew further on to Japan and the city of Hiroshima.
‘Pilot Dalton, come in over,’ a voice said.
‘Yes, Major Sweeney, I read you loud and clear,’ he acknowledged.
‘There’s a message from the base. It is now eight o’ clock in the morning and the air alarm has been lifted. We should arrive at Hiroshima within fifteen minutes.’
‘Copy that.’
‘Has the bomb been armed?’
‘Yes, sir. Private Neill took care of that just now.’
‘And the safety devices has been taken out.’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Good. Prepare yourselves for the drop off. You can begin ascending to thirty-two thousand feet.’
’10-4.’
We ascended to thirty-two thousand feet and slowly but surely Hiroshima came closer insight. A city completely unaware of what horrible fate it was going to suffer. (The track General Weidling Macht Meldung from the movie Der Untergang starts playing)
‘Hey, guys. I don’t think we should be doing this,’ I said.
‘You’re not the only one, Mac, but we can’t go back now. It’s too late for that,’ O’ Neill replied. ‘Besides, it’s the president’s orders.’
‘You can’t crawl away from underneath that,’ Neill said.
‘These peoples don’t know what to expect and neither do we,’ Jack said.
‘I just don’t feel good about this. It’s like we’ve been wasting the past five years killing each other off for no reason.’
‘Taking down evil forces like Nazi Germany doesn’t seem like wasting years to me but a necessary measurement,’ O’ Neill said. ‘It’s our military duty.’
‘What’s the population down there?’
‘According to the files over three hundred and eighty-one thousand peoples before the war. Now there should be approximately two hundred and fifty-five thousand peoples. It might be more or less.’
‘Look, guys, in case we don’t make it and this might be our final military mission,’ Neill said, ‘I’m proud I served with you, guys.’
‘Same here,’ Jack said.
‘It was an honor to have the Stargate Company at my hand,’ O’ Neill said. ‘And that goes for everyone, also for those who couldn’t be here with us today. Except for Murdoc,’ he added laughing.
‘I still miss Jesse and Chuck everyday,’ I said.
‘So do I, Mac,’ Neill replied. ‘So do I.’
‘Yeah.’ (The music fades away here)
The rest of the flight remained silent. Time crept by dead slow. Seven minutes were left from the dropping point and it really passed by dead slow. At a moment I thought time was going to freeze over and we would seem like a frozen dot in the morning air. The closer we got to Hiroshima the further away it seemed. But it was no longer inevitable, we had our orders and we were supposed to follow them up.
The longest seven minutes in my life crept away and than we received our order to drop the first atomic bomb on a city in the history of mankind.
‘OK, put your eye caps on. It’s time,’ O’ Neill said. ‘Camera rolling?’
‘Yeah,’ I said.
‘Now!’ O’ Neill ordered.
It was 8:15 a.m. in Japan when we dropped the atom bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb was dropped and now it was definitive. We were looking out of the windows to see it. I was timing the drop on how long it would take for the explosion and it was long that it took. Twenty seconds passed.
Thirty seconds.
We looked at each other wondering if the mission has succeeded or failed.
Forty-five seconds.
Than after fifty-seven seconds it happened. (The track Firestorm from the movie Independence Day starts playing) Little Boy exploded directly above the city, not hitting target. A blinding bright white light flashed up. It was so bright it still hurt my eyes even with the caps on. There was 15 kilotons of TNT in the bomb and got released with the following explosion. The force of the explosion was of an unknown and immense power. The bomb didn’t make it till the ground but the pressure pulse and shockwave of the bomb made Heaven, Earth and Hell shook on it’s billion year old foundations. The plane shook heavily in the air. Neill and me busted in on each other and rolled over each other. The instrumentation of the plane seemed to go down and Jack was about to lose control. He remained surprisingly calm and got the airplane back under control and flew us to safer areas. The gamma radiation and infrared radiation was released in the explosion. The fireball reached up and up and up. It kept rising until it stopped and immediately after that a shockwave occurred. All the pressurized energy got free and the loudest, darkest most inhuman sound erupted as if it came directly from out of the depths of hell. The shockwave expanded himself over the city at the speed of sound. We couldn’t do nothing else but observe. The fire wave roared over the city destroying everything possible in it’s path. Buildings, cars, streets but worst of all peoples and animals. The sea of fire completely covered the whole city and consumed it merciless. (The music stops here)
Again we looked at each other with guilt and deep regrets of what we have done. We did not expect an effect like this.
‘What have we done?’ I asked.
‘We have completed our mission,’ O’ Neill said. ‘Fly us out of here, Jack.’
We flew back to our base on Tinian where the generals were waiting for us.
‘So how did it go?’ General Hammond asked while we exited the planes.
‘We’ve accomplished our mission, sir,’ O’ Neill said. ‘But the results of the explosion is inexplicable.’
‘What do you mean?’ General Thornton asked.
‘Let me show you,’ I said.
We went back to the briefing room and I showed them the film I made. Astonished and stunned they looked at what happened only minutes ago.
‘We destroyed a sizeable city with only one bomb,’ I said. ‘One bomb.’
‘If this doesn’t bring down Japan to surrender, I don’t know what will,’ General Hammond said.
‘Sir, do you realize what kind of danger this might bring to the world if this falls into the wrong hands and every nation starts building bombs with that kind of destructive force?’
‘That can be the end of the world as we know it,’ Neill said.
‘That’s doomsday, the apocalypse and a whole new form of warfare in a can,’ O’ Neill added.
‘Instead of ending a war, this can begin a new one,’ I said. ‘This one bomb, was already one too many of it’s kind.’
‘Than what do you suggest?’ General Hammond asked. ‘That we call the president to tell him we’re going to neglect his orders in using these bombs?’
‘No, but maybe we can persuade him in finding another way to end this war.’
‘This has to end some time,’ Jack said. ‘Let’s end it now.’
‘Look, we can’t change anything about the president’s orders. If he says “drop them”, we drop them. Another target has been chosen and by next week another target will be chosen.’
‘What target?’ I asked.
‘Nagasaki,’ General Thornton said.
‘If Japan surrenders now, we don’t have to use them anymore. The ball is their camp now,’ General Hammond continued.
‘Sir, we may not launch them,’ I said protesting.
‘Major, if I was president and saw what I just have seen, I’d change my mind, right away. But it’s not up to me to decide. We have to wait on the Japanese reaction of this.’
‘Sir, I…,’
‘That’s enough, major!’ Hammond barked.
‘Hey, come on!’ O’ Neill intervened. ‘General Hammond is right, Mac. We’re still at war and we still have to follow orders. We can do nothing but wait now.’
‘O’ Neill…, I mean, colonel…,’
‘No, Mac. No. But for the record, generals, I’m also against using nuclear weapons. But we can’t ignore orders either, can we?’
‘No,’ I said. ‘Sorry, general.’
‘Never mind. This war is demanding its toll on everyone,’ he said while shaking hands.
‘You have accomplished your mission with success, we’re glad for that. You have earned your rest, take it. From as soon we’ll get new orders, you’ll be notified,’ General Thornton said closing down the conversation.
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In the upcoming days the tension of using this nuclear weapons simply increased. Just a General Thornton said Nagasaki was about to become the next target. Despite our previous bombing Japan did not give in for surrender. Japan didn’t respond to Potsdam Declaration. Later I heard that President Truman has announced that: “The world will know that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. We won the race in discovery against the Germans. We have used it to sharpen the agony of war, in order to safe the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroyed Japans power to make war. We are now prepared to obliterate rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have ... It was to spare the Japanese from utter destruction that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air the likes of which has never been seen before on this earth.”
But unfortunately Japan had his own terms concerning the surrender. Emperor Hirohito, the Japanese government and the War council had four conditions about surrendering. One: the preservation of the kokutai. (The Imperial institution and national polity). Two: assumption by the Imperial Headquarters of responsibility for disarmament and demobilization. Three: no occupation, and delegation to the Japanese government of the punishment of war criminals. A day before the Nagasaki bombing the USSR had declared war on Japan.
The city of Nagasaki had been one of largest seaports of southern Japan and was of great wartime importance because of its wide-ranging industrial activity, including the production of ordnance, ships, military equipment, and other war materials.
Within the Japanese population Nagasaki was known, in contrast to Hiroshima, for old-fashioned Japanese construction consisting of wood or wood-framed buildings with wood walls (with or without plaster) and tile roofs. Many of the smaller industries and business establishments were also housed in buildings of wood or other materials not designed to withstand explosions. Nagasaki had been permitted to grow for many years without conforming to any definite city zoning plan; residences were erected adjacent to factory buildings and to each other almost as closely as possible throughout the entire industrial valley. Nagasaki had never been subjected to large-scale bombing prior to the explosion of a nuclear weapon there. On August 1, 1945, however, a number of conventional high-explosive bombs were dropped on the city. A few hit in the shipyards and dock areas in the southwest portion of the city, several hit the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works and six bombs landed at the Nagasaki Medical School and Hospital, with three direct hits on buildings there. While the damage from these bombs was relatively small, it created considerable concern in Nagasaki and many people—principally school children—were evacuated to rural areas for safety, thus reducing the population in the city at the time of the nuclear attack. To the north of Nagasaki there was a camp holding British Commonwealth prisoners of war, some of whom were working in the coal mines and only found out about the bombing when they came to the surface. The bombing of Nagasaki happened on August 9 1945. It was only three days when Hiroshima was bombed. Permission was given and the orders had to be performed. Because of our protesting, we weren’t allowed to come along this time. It didn’t matter to us, the mission plan for Nagasaki was almost identical to the mission of Hiroshima. The bomb was armed before take of but the electrical safety plugs remained engaged. Just as in our mission there was supposed to be a rendezvous point but one of the planes was unable to make it which caused us to fall behind on schedule. They lost half an hour and another half hour later, the planes reached it’s primary target: Kokura. Because of major cloud cover obscuring the city, sight was prohibiting the visual attack. So because of the low visibility and the failed rendezvous it was decided to move on to the secondary target Nagasaki. If the city was obscured they would call off the mission or carry the bomb to Okinawa to dispose of it or if necessary drop the bomb in the ocean. At 11:01 a.m. that morning the second atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The resulting explosion had a blast yield equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT. Forty-three seconds it took before it exploded at 1,540 feet above the ground. The explosion generated heat up to 7000 degrees Fahrenheit. Estimate deaths between 40,000 and 75,000 and by the end of the year probably 80,000. The radius of total destruction was about a mile followed by fires across the northern portion of the city, to two miles south of the bomb. Those who survived Hiroshima and escaped to Nagasaki got bombed again. So just like after the bombing of Hiroshima, we had to wait now to see if Japan was going to capitulate. In the days we waited I found out that the United States has planned more atomic attacks. One more in the third week of August, three more in September and another three in October. Thank God, they were not needed because on August 12 Japan decided to surrender. This message was not long after the atomic blasts heard on the radio: “On the sixth of August, a Sunday morning, Hiroshima had no premonition about it’s fate. On Tinian Island in the Marianas, a B-29 named the Enola Gay prepared to make the first atomic bomb run. Over Hiroshima and Nagasaki the course of the world took a new turn. The new weapon blasted the enemy completely out of the war. Japan has no longer the will to fight. Hiroshima lay in ruins. Within a few seconds the sizeable city has been demolished by the atomic blast.” (The music stops here)
As the Allied terms seemed to leave intact the principle of the preservation of the Throne, Hirohito recorded on August 14 his capitulation announcement which was broadcast to the Japanese nation the next day despite a short rebellion by militarists opposed to the surrender. In his declaration Hirohito referred to the atomic bombings: “… Despite the best that has been done by everyone – the gallant fighting of the military and navy forces, the diligence and assiduity of Our Servants of the state and the devoted service of Our one hundred million people – the war situation developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest. Moreover, the enemy now possesses a new and terrible weapon with the power to destroy many innocent lives and do incalculable damage. Should we continue to fight, not only would it result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization. Such being the case, how are We to save the millions of our Subject, or to atone, Ourselves before the hallowed spirits of Our Imperial Ancestors? This is the reason why We have ordered the acceptance of the provision of the Joint Declaration of the Powers. The hardships and suffering to which Our nation is to be subjected hereafter will be certainly great. We are keenly aware of the inmost feelings of all of you, Our Subjects. However, it is according to the dictates of time and fate that We have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is unsufferable.”
It’s not only because of the atomic bombs Japan capitulated but also because Russia has invaded Manchuria. Anyway Japan was willing to give up, but it took time to make that official. There was some behind-the-scenes negotiations and a failed coup d’état attempt. On August 28, the occupation of Japan began by Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers led by Douglas MacArthur. The formal surrender was on September 2 when representative of the Empire of Japan signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender in Tokyo Bay on the USS Missouri. Japanese forces in South East Asia followed suit on September 12 1945 in Singapore. Still August 15 is considered both in Japan and the rest of the world to mark the end of World War II, because of Emperor’s Hirohito’s radio broadcast. To me it wasn’t over until September 2 when Japan made their surrender official and the remaining troops in South East Asia did the same on September 12. The Stargate Company had to be present on September 2 1945 on the Missouri to watch this surrender signed. This was broadcasted all over the world. The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that established the armistice ending the Pacific War and with it World War II. It was signed by representatives from the Empire of Japan, the United States of America, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Provisional Government of the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Dominion of New Zealand on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.

(The track The Discharge from Con Air starts playing here)
The Japanese Instrument of Surrender reads:

We, acting by command of and on behalf of the Emperor of Japan, the Japanese Government and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, hereby accept the provisions in the declaration issued by the heads of the Governments of the United States, China, and Great Britain 26 July 1945 at Potsdam, and subsequently to by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which four powers are hereafter referred to as the Allied Powers.

We hereby proclaim the unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and of all Japanese Armed Forces and all Armed Forces under Japanese control wherever situated.

We hereby command all Japanese forces wherever situated and the Japanese people to cease hostilities forthwith, to preserve and save from damage all ships, aircraft, and military and civil property, and to comply with all requirements which may be imposed by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers or by agencies of the Japanese Government at his direction.

We hereby command the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters to issue at once orders to the commanders of all Japanese forces and all forces under Japanese control wherever situated to surrender unconditionally themselves and all forces under their control.

We hereby command all civil, military, and naval officials to obey and enforce all proclamations, orders, and directives deemed by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to be proper to effectuate this surrender and issued by him or under his authority; and we direct all such officials to remain at their posts and to continue to perform their non-combatant duties unless specifically relieved by him or under his authority.

We hereby undertake for the Emperor, the Japanese Government, and their successors to carry out the provisions of the Potsdam Declaration in good faith, and to issue whatever orders and take whatever action may be required by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers or by any other designated representative of the Allied Powers for the purpose of giving effect to that declaration.

We hereby command the Japanese Imperial Government and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters at once to liberate all Allied Prisoners of War and civilian internees now under Japanese control and to provide for their protection, care, maintenance, and immediate transportation to places as directed.

The authority of the Emperor and the Japanese Government to rule the State shall be subject to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, who will take such steps as he deems proper to effectuate these terms of surrender.

Signed at TOKYO BAY, JAPAN at 09.04 on the SECOND day of SEPTEMBER, 1945

Mamoru Shigemitsu
By Command and in behalf of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Government

Yoshijirō Umezu
By Command and in behalf of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters

Accepted at TOKYO BAY, JAPAN at 0908 on the SECOND day of SEPTEMBER, 1945, for the United States, Republic of China, United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and in the interests of the other United Nations at war with Japan.

Douglas MacArthur
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers

C.W. Nimitz
United States Representative

Hsu Yung-Ch'ang
Republic of China Representative

Bruce Fraser
United Kingdom Representative

Kuzma Derevyanko
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Representative

Thomas Blamey
Commonwealth of Australia Representative

L. Moore Cosgrave
Dominion of Canada Representative

Jacques Leclerc
Provisional Government of the French Republic Representative

C.E.L. Helfrich
Kingdom of the Netherlands Representative

Leonard M. Isitt
Dominion of New Zealand Representative
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[MacsChick]

Wow! I am really impressed with your documentation in this story! This work is nicely done (and much appreciated). Is there another chapter, or does it end here?

[MacGyverGod]

Thanks a lot. The research I did on this story was very hard. Youtube and Wikipedia were very helpful. The quotes in the story come directly of footage of that time, you can find it on youtube and you can read the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on Wiki.
There's one more chapter to the story and than it's finished. I'll try and send it in tomorrow to get it over with. The research and the rewriting was a lot of hard work and I did it on only a couple of months time. Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed it.