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Article: GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR'S WIDOW TO BE PRESENTED WITH REPLICA OF PEN HER HUSBAND USED TO SIGN SURRENDER DOCUMENTS TO END WORLD WAR II
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- August 2, 1995
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NEW YORK, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Jean MacArthur, widow of General Douglas MacArthur, will be honored at a private ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 301 Park Avenue at 50th Street, New York, tomorrow, August 3. She will be presented with a replica of the Parker Orange Duofold fountain pen General MacArthur used to sign the Japanese surrender documents aboard the U.S.S. Missouri on September 2, 1945. The original pen, which belonged to her and which she lent to the general, has been lost.
The replica pen bears the general's signature and is numbered 'one' in a limited edition of 1,945 WWII Commemorative pens manufactured by Parker Pen. It will be presented to ...