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V-J Day Celebration
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Seaman 1st class Tom Teeley with newsboy, Bernard Ehrmann, holding a copy of the Wisconsin State Journal with headline declaring peace in the Pacific. Celebrating V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of Japanese forces during World War II.
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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