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On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world's dominant photo-journal), a cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be over. Everyone who saw the picture wanted to know more about the nurse and sailor, but Eisenstaedt had no information and a search for the mysterious couple

Nurses --- Photographs --- Sailors --- V-J Day, 1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- History --- Political aspects --- Peace. --- Eisenstaedt, Alfred. --- Friedman, Greta. --- Mendonsa, George. --- Times Square (New York, N.Y.)