What happens
Narrator Chao Yung-zi returns to Nanking in 1945, flying in to accept the Japanese surrender after the city's long occupation. He recalls the city's history, including Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum and the Nationalist government's establishment there in the 1920s. He describes the 1937 bombing of Nanking and the massacre that followed the Japanese invasion, and the puppet government set up under Wang Ching-wei. The episode of The Pacific Story, broadcast by NBC in October 1945, ends with the formal surrender ceremony in the city's Central Military Academy auditorium.
Nanking (Nanjing), China, from the 1910s through 1945
Characters: Chao Yung-zi, Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Ching-wei, Dr. Townsend, Dr. Thomas, Dr. Collins, General Okamura
Listen for: The account of the 1937 bombing and the events that followed in the city, and the surrender ceremony at the close
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.