Back then, it was just one of those things: “Obviously, to do that today — it’s not such a good idea,” says Lawrence Verria, co-author of “The Kissing Sailor.” “But in Times Square ...

George Mendonsa, who maintained for decades that he was the sailor in an iconic 1945 Times Square photo, dubbed “The Kiss,” that came to symbolize the end of World War II, has died ...

That joyous moment sparked an impromptu celebration in Times Square—and possibly the most famous kiss in American history between a white-capped sailor and a pretty nurse. George Mendonsa ...

It’s a defining image of a turbulent time: a sailor kissing a nurse in New York’s Times Square. For the 92-year-old veteran, those events are closely intertwined. He’s the amorous sailor in ...

Although Eisenstaedt never got the names of the man and woman at the center of his photo, Mendonsa was widely believed to be the image’s “kissing sailor,” a claim that he buttressed by ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A man who became known for claiming he was the sailor kissing a woman in Times Square in a famous World War II-era photo taken by a Life magazine photographer has died.

The sailor featured in the iconic Times Square kissing photo from World War II probably should have grabbed a different woman for his smooch seen around the world. George Mendonsa, 23, had just ...

The US Navy sailor immortalised in the iconic kissing photograph of himself and a woman after the end of World War II was declared, has died at the age of 95. George Mendonsa passed away on Sunday ...

STUART, Fla. – The "kissing sailor" statue in Sarasota, a replica of a Times Square photograph taken after the end of World War II, was spray painted with #MeToo, just after the man in the ...

George Mendonsa, who was pictured kissing a nurse in Times Square at ... Mendonsa for years claimed he was the sailor who was photographed on Aug. 14, 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt and published ...