The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1946, Page 2

PAGETWO _ PICTURE REVIEW OF 1945 A YEAR OF = Wi RGO GCERMAN SURRENDER SCEM E_Naui and Allied officers gather around a table in . . a map-lined conference room at Reims, France, May 7 when the Germans were forced to accept the i struggle in Europe. German representatives sit at the b, Fiench and Russian officers occupy the other places. complete surrender terms whic ed lower left. United IL DUCE'S VIOLENT ENMN D_jyn nilan, Htaly, ¢ bodies of Achille § o, (left) former Fascist party Benito Mussolini ¢ s mistress, Clara Petacci the heels after (i executed by Italian pariisa JAP BOMBS HIT CARRIER_Debris flies aloft as an explosion rocks the USS Franklin, an aircraft carrier, hit by two 500-pound armor-piercing bombs in action against the Japa- . nese fleet in the Inland Sea March 19, AT UNO CONFERENCE_ Anthony Eden of Great Britain, Edward K. Stettinius, Jr., of the U. S. and V. M. Molotov, mmissar, (left to right) confer at the United Nations meeting at San_Francisco. & o atall p rs i PSRN . - I WAKE OF ATOMIC BOMB_A war correspondent examines 2 mass of rubble, all that remained of a section of Hiroshima after the Jap city was hit by the first atomic bomb attack. WITNESS_Gen. of Army George €. Marshall, retiring Army chief of staff, testifies be- fore the special® congressional committee inquiring into i{h: % Pearl Harbor disaster. Other 8 ¥ wilnesses included Cordell Hul and Joseph C. Grew. WORLD-SHAKING BLAST_an automatic cam- era six miles from (he explosion catches the blast of the first atomic bomb, set off experimentally at Alamogordo, N. M., July 16. STRIKE VIOLEN CE_police battle pickets at Warner Brothe TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1946 JAP SURRENDER CEREMONY 1t Gen s 16 NEWS ir Arthur Percival (left foreground), commander of Singapore, and Lt. Gen, Jonathan M. Wainwright (second from left, foreground) salute as Gen. Douglas MacArfl i . RS VICTOR_m the 6 eral parliamentary elee the . war, England veied in'o power the Eabor party nf Clem. ent R. Attlee (above). who he- came prime minister, succear. ing the Ceonservative woartime leader Winston Churchiil. rs studio in California during one of the ‘edrly post-war strikes. Other disputes crippled Detroit’s auto industry. NUERNBERG COURTROOM_the courtroom at Nuernberg, Gertiany, is crowded as twenty top Nazis go on trial Nov, 20, accused of war crimes, Prisoneis are in dock at lower right, CONVICTED _ As the Allies inoved to punish Japanese guilty of atrocities, Gen. Tomo- yukj Yamashita (abowe), former commander of Jap forces in t! Philippines, was convicted by a military tribunal in Manila and sentenced to death, (right foreground) prepares to sign the Japanese surrender document V-E DAY SNOWSTORM _ showers of paper fall from skyscraper windows as New Yorkers celebrate V-3 D: §/Sgt. Arthur Moore of Buffalo, wounded in Belgium. TRUMAN TAKES OAT H_Following the death of President Roosevelt April 12, Harry S. Truman is sworn in as president by Chief Justice Harlan Stone. E. R. Stettinius, Jr., Mrs, Truman, and Speaker Sam Rayburn are witnesses. “ ‘Yanks homebound from Europe on the SS Queen Elizabeth-jam the decks as the big liner steams into New York harbor,