A slightly different angle of the couple kissing that was memorialized by photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt on Aug. 14, 1945. (Lt. Victor Jorgensen / US Navy photograph, National Archives)
A slightly different angle of the couple kissing that was memorialized by photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt on Aug. 14, 1945. (Lt. Victor Jorgensen / US Navy photograph, National Archives)
Did the nurse give affirmative consent to be kissed if not the sailor needs to be charged with sexual assault. That photo smacks of heteronormative patriarchy.
Why is this important, and how much taxpayer money was spent on this study?
The Americans were a much better people than we are.
why is either he or the other sailors in the picture out of uniform?
People in street appear to be in celebration mode. It would be easy to understand that the celebration started before the official announcement.
Whew... I thought they were going to say the sailor was a tranny and the nurse was a dyke, or vice versa.
"...I'm here for KISS..?????..whoops wrong room"
If you just look at the Bond clock, it reads 5:51. So they spent several years confirming what was right there in the photo.
It was pretty obvious to everybody that the real fighting was finally over.
Wouldn’t it have been easier to check the EXIF data?
The Sailer was a McDuffie. I remember he claimed to be the one in the picture and saw a show on TV in which they pretty much proved he was right.
I wonder how many 'Mericans know what *VJ Day* is, if asked?
Looking at the photo at this link
https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/v-j-day-01.jpg?quality=65&strip=color&w=1012
it does look like the Bond clock says 5:51 p.m.
They did not know each other, and Alfred Eisenstaedt admitted years later that the photo was not the least bit spontaneous and completely staged.
The Japs actually surrendered on our August 13th [their August 14th] and it was not officially announced until our August 14th [their August 15th.] It was known well in advance that an "official" announcement was coming. It took more than two weeks before the document signing.
I remember VJ Day, a neighbor of ours got everyone up at around 3-4 a.m. by firing in the air a few rounds from his shotgun and screaming in the air “The War is over, the boys are coming home”. Everyone came out of their houses with noise makers and all of a sudden you heard horns going off bloc by block, along with anything that made noise. My parents took me in pajamas to visit their friend who lived 2 blocks over from us to give them the good news. Their son was in the 8th Air Force. I remember the guys coming home from the war and how the neighbors greeted them back. Now I think back and wonder, “What ever happened to that America?”
