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Joe Rosenthal and Charles W. Lindberg autographed First Day Cover commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima. Canceled in Honolulu, Hawaii, on September 2, 1995, the cover bears the 32-cent stamps honoring the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima and the liberation of Manila. Rosenthal has signed in black ink beside the cachet depicting the famous flag raising. Lindberg has signed in black ballpoint and added the inscription, “1st Flag Raiser, Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945, 10:30 A.M.” The reverse features an additional commemorative cachet with a quotation from Marine Peter Hansen describing the Battle of Iwo Jima.

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Joe Rosenthal (1911-2006) was the Associated Press photographer whose photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima became one of the defining images of the Second World War. Taken on February 23, 1945, the photograph earned Rosenthal the Pulitzer Prize for Photography and later served as the model for the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia.

Charles W. Lindberg (1920-2007) was a United States Marine with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division. On the morning of February 23, 1945, he participated in the first raising of the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Later that day, a larger replacement flag was raised on the summit and photographed by Joe Rosenthal, creating one of the most recognizable images of the Second World War. Lindberg remained one of the last surviving participants of the first flag raising and frequently shared his firsthand account of the historic event.

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