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- Series: Red Cross
- Face value: 5 ¢ - United States cent
- First Day of Issue: October 29, 1963
- First Day City: Washington, D.C.
- Format: Stamp
- Size: 40 x 25 mm
- Emission: Commemorative
- Watermark: No Watermark
- Designer: Victor S. McCloskey, Jr
- Engraver(s): K. C. Wiram, Richard M. Bower
- Print Run: 118,665,000
- Printed by: Bureau of Engraving & Printing
- Printing Method: Giori Press
- Perforations: 11
- Paper: Normal
- Gum: Moisture Activated
- Color: Bluish Black & Red
- Description: Red Cross flag and SS "Morning Light" carrying Cuban refugees.
100th Anniversary of the International Red Cross
U.S. #1239 honors the 100th anniversary of the International Red Cross and its contribution to the Cuban prisoner exchange. The stamp is based on a photograph of the freighter S.S. Morning Light, which was one of the mercy ships that returned refugees from Cuba at Port Everglades, Florida, on May 24, 1963.