JF Ptak Science Books  Post 1253

After serving as public relations director for Madison Square Garden (1935-1942), T.L. Deglin wound up a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army in a public relations capacity, finding himself a witness on 2 September 1945 to the Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri and at Baguio (in the Philippines). what follows below is his five-page (1750 word) description of those events.  The report is an offset-printed production, so it did see some sort of distribution, but I can find no mention of it anywhere. 

My copy came as part of a large group of material (known as “The Pamphlet Collection”) that I purchased of the Library of Congress some years ago–the one cohesive factor to the collection-without-a-purpose was that the material was by and large no located in other libraries.  This may have been because of the great ephemeral nature of some of them, but the pamphlets saw very restricted play in the library circulation game. 

[Content warning–there’s some very place/time/situation-specific derogatory language here.]

I reproduce the document in full, below.  The original is also for sale at my blog bookstore. 

Additionaly there is this U.S. Navy Department press relsease for announcing the surrender signing agreements, dated 28 August 1945.  This actually comes from the estate of Adm. Grace Murray Hopper via a sale through the Friends of the Arlington Library (Virginia) many years ago.