Details:

Vito Alongi autographed commemorative cover honoring the 50th anniversary of Japan’s surrender, signed in blue ink with the handwritten inscription: “Served on the USS Missouri on Sept. 2, 1945 & watched the Jap and Allies sign the surrender.”

Fine condition.

Vito Alongi served aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) and was present in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, when representatives of the Japanese government formally signed the Instrument of Surrender aboard the battleship, officially ending World War II. His lengthy inscription documents his firsthand presence at this historic ceremony, making the cover an especially desirable eyewitness account of one of the defining moments of the twentieth century. The cachet depicting Bock’s Car, the B-29 that carried the atomic bomb to Nagasaki, further enhances the historical significance by linking the atomic missions that hastened Japan’s surrender with the ceremony that formally concluded the war.

Authentication:
Includes a full letter of authenticity from JG Autographs, Inc.

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Reference sku: 11644 1416712-1