George Mendonsa, US WWII 'Kissing Sailor', Dies Aged 95

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Link 1: George Mendonsa, US WWII 'kissing sailor', dies aged 95 [bBC News]

 

The US sailor famously photographed kissing a stranger in New York's Times Square to celebrate the end of World War Two has died aged 95.

 

The picture of George Mendonsa bending over and kissing 21-year-old Greta Zimmer Friedman on VJ Day (Victory over Japan) became one of the most enduring images of the period.

 

It was one of four photographs taken by Alfred Eisenstadt as a round-up of celebration pictures for Life magazine.

 

Ms Friedman died in 2016 aged 92.

 

Mr Mendonsa's daughter, Sharon Molleur, said her father suffered a seizure and died on Sunday after a fall at a care home in Middleton, Rhode Island...

 

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