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Item no. S291 (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: Turks & Caicos

Date of issue: 14 August 1995

Catalog number: Scott no. 1174 (of 1169 – 1175)

Stamp of 7-stamp set “50TH ANNIVERSARY OF VE [Victory in Europe] DAY”. It shows a free graphic interpretation of a photograph taken on 14 August 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 – 1995) at New York’s Times Square. The photograph, called V-J KISS, showed American sailor who spontaneously kissed a nurse in the street, upon hearing the news of the Japanese surrender. It’s an error to use this illustration to the V-E date as the photograph was taken over 4 months later after the event here captioned.

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