Item no. S296 (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: Marshall Islands

Date of issue: 9 May 1995

Catalog number: 857b (of 857a-d)

Stamp of 4-stamp set issued to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the End of World War II. It shows a free graphic representation of a photograph taken on 14 August 1945 by German-born American photographer and photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 – 1995) at New York’s Times Square. The photograph, called V-J KISS, originally was of American sailor who spontaneously kissed a nurse in the street, upon hearing the news of the Japanese surrender. In this interpretation the image has reversed sides, sailor is replaced by G. I. soldier and added is imaginary background.

[Compare with PH1, s108, s218 and s291]

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Friday 29 November 2013

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