American Legion Post 157 will be having a ceremony commemorating VJ Day (Victory over Japan).
The event will be held on Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. at Legion Park in Ellwood City. There will be a special wreath-laying ceremony celebrating the 75th anniversary.
The public is invited to attend and the Legion Post 157 asks you to please social distance and wear a mask during the ceremony.
The event, sponsored by Ellwood City Mayor Anthony Court and former mayor Sam Teolis, is dedicated to local resident Joseph Gasper, who was one of the first American soldiers wounded at Pearl Harbor at the start of World War II. Wednesday is the anniversary of the end of the war with Japan.
American Legion Post 157 lists the surviving residents who served from Dec. 7, 1941, to Dec. 31, 1946: Teolis, Gasper, Sophia Burnell, John Kerstetter, Alvin Leventhal, James Sneed, Eugene Stiefel, Daniel Starr, Edward Zikeli and Guy Prestia. There may be others who may not be recorded.
“VJ Day” has been used for the date, September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.
READ MORE: www.history.com/world-war-ii/v-j-day
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