🌎 Country

United States

📅 Year

1945

💰 Denomination

3¢

📮 Issue type

Commemorative

🖼 Topic

Military

Based on Joe Rosenthal's photograph of Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, this stamp appeared in July 1945, less than five months after the picture was taken. It broke an unwritten rule against showing living people on United States stamps.

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