1-February... Founding of Voice of America...


The US Foreign Information Service (FIS) in the year 1941, recognized a need to establish a permanent broadcasting organization... To this effect, FIS founded Voice of America on this day (1-Feb) in the year 1942 and provided the first International broadcast...

The 25th anniversary of Voice of America was commemorated by US Postal Administration with the release of a 5-cent postage stamp in the year 1967...

The stamp features a communication tower with the waves of broadcasting signals...

This stamp can be collected under the themes:

(a) Communication...
(b) Radio...
(c) Science and Technology...
(d) Broadcasting Services...
(e) Anniversaries...

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