August 14, 1945 Day of Japanese Surrender Correspondence Sergeant Sidney Sanders for Sale

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August 14, 1945 Day of Japanese Surrender Correspondence Sergeant Sidney Sanders For Sale

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August 14, 1945 Day of Japanese Surrender Correspondence Sergeant Sidney Sanders:
$600.00

Letter dated August 14, 1945 Day of Japanese Surrender where the Easwest Produce Company (Safeway) Corresponds with Sergeant Sidney Sanders about the impending announcement of the Japanese Surrender in the 2nd World War. He is also advised that \'there will not be the need for redeployment to the Pacific\'. What is amazing about this letter is that it was being typed \'35 minutes\' before the Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced his country\'s surrender. Pages in very nice condition, envelope is aged and tanned but complete with a postmark dated August 16, 1945.
Another letter and envelope dated June 22, 1945 to this same sergeant is included for completion.On August 14, 1945Emperor Hirohito recorded a radio message to the Japanese people saying that the war should end and that they must \"bear the unbearable.\" That night the Kyūjō incident occurred, an effort by a group of officers to steal the recording and stop the move to surrender. The attempt would fail and the conspirators would commit suicide.The August Revolution began when the Viet Minh launched an uprising against French colonial rule in Vietnam.Alfred Eisenstaedt took the V-J Day in Times Square photograph of an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress during V-J Day celebrations in New York City.
The Kyūjō incident ( Kyujo Jiken) was an attempted military coup d\'état in the Empire of Japan at the end of the Second World War. It happened on the night of 14–15 August 1945, just before the announcement of Japan\'s surrender to the Allies. The coup was attempted by the Staff Office of the Ministry of War of Japan and many from the Imperial Guard to stop the move to surrender.
The officers murdered Lieutenant General Takeshi Mori of the First Imperial Guards Division and attempted to counterfeit an order to the effect of permitting their occupation of the Tokyo Imperial Palace (Kyūjō). They attempted to place Emperor Hirohito under house arrest, using the 2nd Brigade Imperial Guard Infantry. They failed to persuade the Eastern District Army and the high command of the Imperial Japanese Army to move forward with the action. Due to their failure to convince the remaining army to oust the Imperial House of Japan, they performed ritual suicide. As a result, the communiqué of the intent for a Japanese surrender continued as planned.