WWII in the Pacific - Bookends

Here are two videos that make effective "bookends" for the war in the Pacific.

The first, a short story of how survivors of the USS Arizona, sunk at the beginning of the war in the Pacific, are allowed to rejoin their comrades-in-arms in death.

The second video is a melange of black and white newsreel shots of the complete surrender ceremony on another battleship, the USS Missouri.

Both are moving in their simplicity and their elegant encapsulation of the US inexorable march from defeat to victory.