İçindekiler:
- Did George Mendonsa marry the nurse?
- Who were the V-J Day kissers?
- Who did George Mendonsa kiss?
- Why was Eisenstaedt most likely unable to get the names of the couple in the V-J Day photograph?
- Who is the woman in the kiss?
- Who was the soldier that kissed nurse?
- Why did the sailor kiss the nurse?
- Who was the nurse that the sailor kissed?
- Where is the statue of the sailor kissing the girl?
Did George Mendonsa marry the nurse?
His kiss with the “nurse,” Petry said, never bothered her.
They married one year later, and Rita Mendonsa later identified the top of her head in the Eisenstaedt photo, partly visible above Mr.
Who were the V-J Day kissers?
According to the most authoritative study of the subject, Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi's The Kissing Sailor (2012), forensic analysis eliminates all but two claimants: George Mendonsa, a Navy quartermaster on leave from the Pacific
and Greta Zimmer Friedman, a dental assistant (not a nurse) from Queens.
Who did George Mendonsa kiss?
Greta Zimmer Friedman
If you have been alive and in possession of eyeballs at any point in the past 75 years, chances are, you have seen the photograph of George Mendonsa kissing
Greta Zimmer Friedman on V-J Day in 1945.
Why was Eisenstaedt most likely unable to get the names of the couple in the V-J Day photograph?
Eisenstaedt said that he did not have an opportunity to get the names and details, because
he was photographing rapidly changing events during the celebrations. The photograph does not clearly show the face of either person involved, and numerous people have claimed to be the subjects.
Who is the woman in the kiss?
One such muse is
Emilie Flöge, the woman long rumoured to be the woman in Gustav Klimt's masterpiece The Kiss. Born in 1874, Flöge possessed the usual suspects of beauty and charm, but she was also an innovative fashion designer, businesswoman and radical.
Who was the soldier that kissed nurse?
Mendonsa
Mendonsa was a uniformed sailor in the US navy when he was photographed kissing a woman in a nurse's uniform on 14 August 1945, the day Japan surrendered. The photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt was published in Life magazine and became one of the most famous images of the 20th century.
Why did the sailor kiss the nurse?
"The reason he grabbed
someone dressed like a nurse was that he just felt very grateful to nurses who took care of the wounded." "I felt he was very strong, he was just holding me tight, and I'm not sure I -- about the kiss because, you know, it was just somebody really celebrating.
Who was the nurse that the sailor kissed?
Providence, R.I. — The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. George Mendonsa was 95.
Where is the statue of the sailor kissing the girl?
Return of the Kissing Sailor Statue in San Diego The original statue was removed in 2012, but in 2013, a replica was installed back in San Diego, and it now rests there permanently.
The USS Midway Museum raised $1 million to fund the replacement. Other versions of the statue reside in various cities around the country.