US, Japanese, British, Soviet, and Australian representatives sign Japanese surrender papers

MCUs Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu approaching and sitting at surrender table on USS Missouri / VS Japanese officials lay out documents; two officials show their wristwatches to Shigemitsu as announcer says "The time is 9:05am" / VS Shigemitsu signs document / CU Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander Southwest Pacific Area watching / MLS Shigemitsu signs document as US Gen. Richard Sutherland watches, other military officials look on in bg/ MLS partial view of military news media with still and movie cameras capturing ceremony / MS Japanese Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu approaching table as Shigemitsu walks away / MLS Umezu signs document / MLS Umezu at table, across table stands Sutherland / LS Sutherland moving paper / LS MacArthur joins Sutherland at table / MWS military cameramen and reporters on upper deck / MLS MacArthur signs document, turns, presents pen to US Gen. Jonathan Wainwright IV, Allied Commander in the Philippines / MS Allied delegation watching / MS MacArthur turning, presenting pen to British Gen. Arthur Percival, who surrendered Singapore to the Japanese / MLS MacArthur signs documents / MS Japanese delegation watching / LS rear view MacArthur rises from table, walks to microphone / MLS USS Missouri's guns project forward in fg, sailors crowd the multiple levels in bg to watch / VS US Adm. Chester Nimitz sits at table, signs document with Adms. William Halsey and Forrest Sherman behind him / MLS Japanese delegates watching / MS Chinese Gen. Xu Yongchang signs / MLS sailors on upper decks, watch / VS British Adm. Bruce Fraser, Commander of British Pacific Fleet, sits and signs / VS Russian Lt. Gen. Kuzma Derevyanko signs / LS sailors watching from above, ship's gun / VS Australian Gen. Thomas Blamey signs / CU profile MacArthur / LS SOT MacArthur reading statement, officials, news media looking on / MS profile MacArthur speaking / VS US Army Air Forces planes overhead / Title card: "THE END" superimposed over Pathe rooster logo