News reel of the surrender ceremony on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945. Background music is "With Honour Crowned".

Former president George Herbert Walker Bush tells the harrowing details of how he narrowly survived getting shot down near Chichi Jima in the Pacific during WWII. On Sept. 2, 1944, Pilot Bush bailed out after his fighter plane catches on fire and fortunately gets picked up by a U.S. submarine.