V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger [1] —a dental assistant—on Victory over Japan Day ("V …

Mar 6, 2024 · The picture portrays a U.S. Navy sailor grabbing and kissing a stranger—a woman in a white dress—on Victory over Japan Day (“V-J Day”) in New York City’s Times Square on …

Sep 11, 2016 · Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant, out in Times Square when news of the war’s end broke. George Mendonsa, who in 2015 confirmed he was the man in the photo, …

Aug 14, 2015 · Taken on V-J Day, 1945, as thousands jammed Times Square. In recent decades this iconic photograph has engendered condemnation, after Greta Zimmer Friedman, the …

Sep 14, 2016 · When World War II finally came to a close on August 14, 1945, Americans all over the country took to the streets to celebrate the end of a long and brutal war. All the outpourings …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Affairs secretary has reversed a department memo that aimed to ban VA displays of the iconic “V-J Day in Times Square” photograph of a Navy sailor …

Greta Friedman (née Grete Zimmer; June 5, 1924 – September 8, 2016) was an Austrian-born American who was photographed being grabbed and kissed by Navy sailor George Mendonsa …

Feb 1, 2018 · Unconditional Surrender is a three-dimensional interpretation of a photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a Sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, New York City on Aug. 14, …

Aug 14, 2015 · An anonymous U.S. sailor and woman in a white dress kiss euphorically in the middle of New York's Times Square.

Aug 14, 2020 · A victory that he captured in his historic spur of the moment photo in Times Square. There have been other debates and controversies around the photograph, more of …