Lot 1147
A RARE 1945 TICKER TAPE ANNOUNCING THE JAPANESE SURRENDER ENDING WORLD WAR II.
1 – 10 April 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsUS$6,000 - US$8,000
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A RARE 1945 TICKER TAPE ANNOUNCING THE JAPANESE SURRENDER ENDING WORLD WAR II.
The tape with printed inscription reading "WRITE U SHORT WAVE CAME FROM HOME HEARD MORE A MIN AGO FROM HORT[sic] WAVE VIA USF RADIO THE JAPS ACCEPT THE POTSAM TREATY PROVIDING THEY KEEP THEIR EMPEROR WILL GIVE YOU MORE AS SOON AS WE HEAR IT V THRU SWITZERLAND INFORM SWITZERLAND THEY ACCEPT THE POTSDAM TREATY" mounted in a frame against a background of Japanese invasion currency along with a Restricted Army Air Forces Air Transport Command Ticket for K. Eiler issued 1 October 1945.
Framed ht. 7 3/4, wd. 52 1/2 in.
Framed ht. 7 3/4, wd. 52 1/2 in.
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One of the first ticker tapes to announce the news that the Imperial Japanese Forces had accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration outlining the terms for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces, August 15, 1945, and cease hostilities. On August 10 Emperor Hirohito, after the second atomic bomb was exploded over Nagasaki and the Russian invasion of Manchuria on August 9, ordered the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War to accept the terms for surrender set down in the Potsdam Declaration. The Emperor recorded a radio broadcast on August 15 publicly announcing the surrender of the Empire of Japan to the allies and the first American forces arrived to take over control on August 28 and the Surrender document was finally signed on September 2, when General Douglas MacArthur took the surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay.