George Mendonsa : The kissing sailor from Times Square is dead

George Mendonsa "kissing sailor" from New York by one of the most famous photos of the end of the Second world war, is dead. The former members of the U.S. Navy, died at the weekend in an old people's home in Middletown in the US state of Rhode Island, according to US media on Monday, citing his daughter Sharon Moeller reported. He was 95 years old.

Mendonsa was a kiss scene during a spontaneous victory celebration to the defeat of Japan in world war II in Times Square in New York on 14. August 1945 became known. He had taken during the celebrations on the street, a young nurse arbitrarily in the arms and intimately kissed, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt immortalized this Moment. Later, the Black-and-White photo on the front page of the "Life"magazine appeared.

George Mendonsa with old photos of themselves shooting, including a copy of (l) to the famous Alfred Eisenstadt photo's...photo: photo: Connie Grosch/the Providence Journal/dpa

identifies The nurse was later, as Greta room Friedman. She died, according to the NBC in 2016 at the age of 92 years.

In the years after that had claimed several of the Sailors, they were the famous kissing sailor. But facial-recognition programs later confirmed that it was in the Sailors to Mendonsa. "My father was very proud of his service (in the Navy), as well as the image, and what it meant," said daughter Molleur. "It was always, many, many years later, an important part of his life." (dpa)