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Item no. S109 (stamp)

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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.

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