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JOHN H. BRADLEY - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED - HFSID 148227

First Day Cover signed: "John H. Bradley Ph M 2/C", 6½x3¾. FDC honoring the Armed Forces (U.S. Merchant Marine), 3-cent Merchant Marine stamp affixed, postmarked Washington, D.C., February 26, 1946, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. Navy Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class John H.

Price: $200.00

Condition: Fine condition
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JOHN H. BRADLEY. First Day Cover signed: "John H. Bradley Ph M 2/C", 6½x3¾. FDC honoring the Armed Forces (U.S. Merchant Marine), 3-cent Merchant Marine stamp affixed, postmarked Washington, D.C., February 26, 1946, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. Navy Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class John H. Bradley (1923-1994) was the only Navy man raising the flag in the famous photograph on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima (February 23, 1945); the other five were Marines. Photographer Joe Rosenthal's photograph was the basis for the Marine Corps Monument at Arlington National Cemetery. Nearly 7,000 Americans, almost 6,000 of them Marines, including three in the photograph, died in the battle for the strategically important Pacific island, representing nearly one-third of the Marines killed in all of WWII. Lightly rippled. Soiled on verso. Fine condition.

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