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Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016 [clipping from the Cover of the Honolulu Advertiser]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09611.462.02 Author/Creator: Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016 Place Written: Honolulu, Hawaii Type: Newspaper clipping Date: 15 August 1945 Pagination: 3 p. : envelope ; Order a Copy

One newspaper clipping sent by Leonard Eugene Graeff to Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff dated August 15, 1945. The clipping is from the first page of the Honolulu Advertiser. It includes the masthead and an image with caption. The image is features a celebration that took place in Pearl Harbor when news was announced of the Japanese surrender on August 13, 1945. The celebration was the shooting of flares around Fleet landing.

Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016
Graeff, Raymond James, 1889-1963
Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967

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