MacArthur lands in Japan, August 30th 1945

Today in 1945, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur landed in Japan. His mission was to prepare for the formal surrender ceremony and to organize the military government that would oversee the Japanese occupation. As he drove himself to Yokohama, thousands of Japanese soldiers lined the route. The shooting may have ended, but the war was not over -- History with an opinion, the past with an attitude, from Matt Dattilo.