Unconditional cachet B

This one has the 6c victory stamp.

Unconditional cachet A

Special occasion post office cachet for the Unconditional Surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945 with 2c and 4c victory stamps on cover.

V-J in V-J DAY stands for Victory over Japan.

victory postal card

This postal card does not exist without the black VICTORY printing.

Cebu PO reopening

Here's a victory postal card that was cancelled on the day the Cebu Post Office reopened during Liberation.

victory stamps

In 1945 after the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, a total of 10 USPI stamps were overprinted VICTORY COMMONWEALTH and 2 Commonwealth stamps were overprinted VICTORY.

All these victory stamps are shown above. 

Balagtas cover

The purple post office cachet is handstamped while the Manila Variety Store Co. cachet is printed on this special event cover commemorating the 160th birth anniversary of the poet Francisco Balagtas, also known as Francisco Baltazar, whose Florante at Laura is required reading in Philippine schools.

V-PEX seals

By privately overprinting the green Rizal stamp of 1941, the Philippine Philatelic Club created a new philatelic souvenir in 1945 for V-PEX, the Victory Philatelic Exhibition.

The 1941 stamps had been demonetized during the Japanese occupation.

victory stamps souvenir

This is "a souvenir with a brief history of Philippine postage stamps dedicated to the United States and her allied forces of liberation in freeing the Philippines and the rest of the world from the common enemy" from the acting postmaster of Tolosa, Leyte.

Made not long after the Second World War.

Manila Stamp Co.

Did you know that the Manila Stamp Co. of Yu Sio Chong (d. 1994) was also a cachetmaker?

You'll know by the MSC mark printed, in small caps, usually below the cachet of first day covers of the 1940s and 1950s.

Cotabato PO reopening

This cover was described in an auction held some 15 years ago as marking the reopening of Cotabato post office on August 13, 1945, with "wavy lines cancel plus m/s name and date, censored in Davao and signed by postmaster."

Cotabato is quite a distance from Davao.
Why the censor mark in Davao?

V-PEX

V-PEX, the Victory Philatelic Exhibition, was held at Manila from October 20 to 22, 1945.

Yes, sir, philately was alive before, during and after the Second World War.

This exhibit, reported to be the first after the Japanese occupation, was held by the Philippine Philatelic Club to commemorate the first anniversary of the Leyte D-Day, the landing of American troops on that island.

The postal card and cover shown above were cancelled on October 20, 1945, the first day of the exhibition, which was held at the Arias Building. Both also have the official commemorative cachet handstamped in black.

These are not difficult to find, even after 70 years!

philatelic radio program

A radio program for philately?

Yes, sir, there was in 1949 a "Philatelic Literary Musical Aircast" over DzFM every Friday at 5 p.m. and every Saturday at 6:45 p.m. 

This slogan cancel was used by the Stamp and Philatelic Division of the Bureau of Posts in Manila. The illustration caricatures an announcer on a microphone. 

I wonder how long the program lasted and what the content was.

Afran Stamp Company 1

Did you know that the Afran Stamp Company not only advertised in the philatelic press but also in such magazines as Popular Science and Popular Mechanics?

PPC in Iloilo?

This postal card addressed to the Philippine Philatelic Club of Manila...er, make that Iloilo...was postmarked in Manila on November 14, 1945. Looks like it made it to Iloilo as the backstamp shows.

Puzzling.

(The postal card, by the way, is of the "close IC in VICTORY" variety.)

V-J Day

The collector who made this Philippine philatelic souvenir must have had some fun!

http://www.franciscoortigasjr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=83

Extracted from the article is this bit of information:
"Author of this philatelic rarity is Mr. Jesus Garcia, Chief of the City Delivery Division, Manila Post Office, but it was presented as a souvenir to his friend Don Francisco Ortigas, Jr., President of the Manila Lions Club, who now treasures this priceless article and who has his autograph at the bottom-center."