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Item no. S159 (stamp)

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Item no. S159 (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: Antigua & Barbuda

Date of issue: 15 June 2005

Stamp of a 4-stamp set issued to honor 60th Anniversary of End of WW II. The design of the stamp is based on a photograph by Associated Press photojournalist JOE ROSENTHAL (1911 - 2006) "Raising the US flag on the island Iwo Jima, at the Mount Suribachi" taken on 23 February 1945.
Joe Rosenthal was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for this iconic photograph in 1945.

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