U.S. stamp honoring the capture of Iwo Jima, 1945
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Photograph. U.S. stamp showing the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/9/45--New U.S. stamp honors heroes--A new three-cent stamp issued by the U.S. Post Office Department bears the famous picture of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, central Pacific island captured from the Japanese on March 15, 1945.--Photo through Rome OWI--Approved by appropriate military authority (List A out). 7046." United States. 9 July 1945
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07/09/1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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United States
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38.000
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-98.000
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Postage stamps--United States
Flags--American