Item no. S109 (stamp)
Type: stamp
Country: Marshall Islands
Date of issue: 1995
Catalog number: Scott 506 (of 504-524)
Stamp of 21-stamp set commemorating various battles and events of WW II.
It shows a sculpture (The USMC Memorial in Arlington, VA.) 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.