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- Formal Surrender
of Japan
- Incredibly Rare
Signed Document
- September 2nd, 1945, USS MISSOURI
- 10 Signatures from
the Surrender Ceremony on One Document, Including 7 signers of
the Instrument of Surrender
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 The Formal
Surrender of Japan,
2 September 1945. A Rare and Historic Document Signed,
being a collection of 10 signatures on a photographic matt signed
on the deck of the USS Missouri the morning of the surrender.
All 10 signers were participants in the surrender ceremony; 7
of the 12 were signers of the Instrument of Surrender and 3 were
senior members of the U.S. delegation. The signers here were:
Douglas MacArthur (Allied Commander), Chester Nimitz
(USA), Yoshijiro Umezu (Japan), Bruce Fraser (UK),
Kuzma Derevyanko (USSR), Jacques LeClerc (FR),
Conrad Helfrich (Netherlands); and three members of the
U.S. delegation were: Admiral William F. Halsey, Rear Admiral
Forrest Sherman, and Lt. General Richard K. Sutherland.
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- On September 2, 1945, at 4
minutes past 9 o'clock, the Japanese representatives signed the
official Instrument of Surrender, prepared by the War Department
and approved by President Truman. This is the rarest compilation
of signatures we've ever handled related to this historic event.
A rare and historic document-a one of a kind witness to the end
of World War II. Provenance: from the collection of a veteran
who was present at the surrender. Matt shows normal aging, overall
in very good condition. Housed in a custom frame with a 1945
color print from of the ceremony. $35,000. SOLD. (#10835)
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