It was 70 years ago that
Alfred Eisenstaedt took this iconic photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse with
his Leica on V-J Day in Times Square in New York City.
After decades of dispute, the
couple in the 1945 photograph were revealed to be 89-year-olds George Mendonsa
and Greta Zimmer Friedman.
Now the couple who won the
nation's heart, reunited in the location of the famous smooch to reflect on the
photograph that came to symbolize the end of the war.
“It was the moment. You come
back from the Pacific, and finally, the war ends,” Mendonsa told CBS.
Mendonsa told how he was on a
date with another woman named Rita Petry at Radio City Music Hall on August 14
when news of the Japanese surrender was announced.
“They stopped the show and
they said, ‘The war is over. The Japanese have surrendered," he recalled.
Mendonsa spotted a woman in a
nurse’s uniform - he left Petry and rushed to grab her.
“The excitement of the war
being over, plus I had a few drinks,” he told CBS. “So when I saw the nurse, I
grabbed her, and I kissed her.”
“I did not see him
approaching, and before I know it, I was in this vice grip,” Friedman added.
That moment was eloquently
captured by LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. It rates among his most
famous photographs.
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