Lot of 5, including 4 photographs and 2pp letter, comprising: 2pp. letter, 5.25 x 8.5 in., from "William Jig" to "Ralph." N.p., June 3, 1947, on blue bordered stationary with C monogram. Jig, who was apparently present on the USS Missouri during the formal Japanese Surrender at the end of World War II, recounts his recollections of the event to his friend: "Just to prove that I was sober for a while anyway, here's the pictures we promised for the scrapbook. One of them carries the "gen-u-wine" signature of MacA, which I had forgotten about, So maybe that makes it more desirable too. The pix were all taken on the Missouri. The comments on the other two were put there at the time I was still overseas. Cosgrave is the Canadian representative who got stiff before the ceremony (he even looks boiled in the picture) and signed the wrong line. The Japs set up a howl - something about an insult to the Emperor so the ceremony came to a halt until the draftsman could repair the damage. They all had a couple of snifters beforehand, but Cosgrave had done more than his share. And so the war was won!" The Canadian representative Cosgrave is known to have signed on the line intended for the French representative on the Japanese copy of the surrender, however, it has generally attributed to poor eyesight from an injury received during service in WWI. Snapshot image of General Douglas MacArthur signing the formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri, 2 September 1945. SIGNED by MacArthur ("Douglas MacArthur), 4.5 x 3.5 in. (Loss to upper right corner). Snapshot image of Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland standing by the desk as Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (重光葵) signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government. (Loss to upper right corner). Snapshot image of MacArthur delivering his address to open the surrender ceremonies, with representatives from the Allied Powers (left to right): Xu Yongchang (徐永昌, Hsu Yung-chang, China); Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, RN (United Kingdom); Lieutenant General Kuzuma Derevyanko (Soviet Union); General Sir Thomas Blamey (Australia); Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave (Canada); General Jacques LeClerc (France); and Admiral Conrad E.L. Helfrich (the Netherlands). With ink inscription in upper margins: "COSGRAVE who snafued the signing" with an arrow pointing to the Colonel. Snapshot image of two men in uniform identified by lower marginal inscription as Ralph S. Pellman and Arnold Royer. Lollar's: Birmingham, Sep. 4, 1946, stamp to verso.
Lot of 5, including 4 photographs and 2pp letter, comprising: 2pp. letter, 5.25 x 8.5 in., from "William Jig" to "Ralph." N.p., June 3, 1947, on blue bordered stationary with C monogram. Jig, who was apparently present on the USS Missouri during the formal Japanese Surrender at the end of World War II, recounts his recollections of the event to his friend: "Just to prove that I was sober for a while anyway, here's the pictures we promised for the scrapbook. One of them carries the "gen-u-wine" signature of MacA, which I had forgotten about, So maybe that makes it more desirable too. The pix were all taken on the Missouri. The comments on the other two were put there at the time I was still overseas. Cosgrave is the Canadian representative who got stiff before the ceremony (he even looks boiled in the picture) and signed the wrong line. The Japs set up a howl - something about an insult to the Emperor so the ceremony came to a halt until the draftsman could repair the damage. They all had a couple of snifters beforehand, but Cosgrave had done more than his share. And so the war was won!" The Canadian representative Cosgrave is known to have signed on the line intended for the French representative on the Japanese copy of the surrender, however, it has generally attributed to poor eyesight from an injury received during service in WWI. Snapshot image of General Douglas MacArthur signing the formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri, 2 September 1945. SIGNED by MacArthur ("Douglas MacArthur), 4.5 x 3.5 in. (Loss to upper right corner). Snapshot image of Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland standing by the desk as Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (重光葵) signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government. (Loss to upper right corner). Snapshot image of MacArthur delivering his address to open the surrender ceremonies, with representatives from the Allied Powers (left to right): Xu Yongchang (徐永昌, Hsu Yung-chang, China); Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, RN (United Kingdom); Lieutenant General Kuzuma Derevyanko (Soviet Union); General Sir Thomas Blamey (Australia); Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave (Canada); General Jacques LeClerc (France); and Admiral Conrad E.L. Helfrich (the Netherlands). With ink inscription in upper margins: "COSGRAVE who snafued the signing" with an arrow pointing to the Colonel. Snapshot image of two men in uniform identified by lower marginal inscription as Ralph S. Pellman and Arnold Royer. Lollar's: Birmingham, Sep. 4, 1946, stamp to verso.
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