The Famous Kissing Sailor George Mendonsa in Times Square 1945
From The Front To The Films: A World War II Podcast
English - July 12, 2019 10:29 - 5 minutes - 5.03 MB - ★★★★ - 25 ratingsHistory TV & Film europe films pbs pacific books dday documentary hollywood movies pearlharbor Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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George Mendonsa, a World War II veteran whose claim of being a sailor kissing a nurse in an iconic image was verified using facial recognition technology
Mendonsa, a retired fisherman, had maintained for years that he was the sailor locking lips in a picture taken on Aug. 14, 1945, by Alfred Eisenstaedt and published in Life magazine as a scene from "V-J Day in Times Square." On that day, Americans crowded the streets to celebrate the Japanese surrender to the Allies and the end of the war.