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Item no. P750 (cover)

Type: cover

Country: USA

Date of use: 14 August 1945

Cover bearing a stamp issued to honor US victories at the Pacific during WW II. The stamp’s design is based on a photograph “Raising the US flag on the island Iwo Jima, at the Mount Suribachi” taken by Associated Press photojournalist JOE ROSENTHAL (1911 – 2006) on 23 February 1945. Joe Rosenthal was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for this iconic photograph in 1945.

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