File:Kissing the War Goodbye.jpg

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Deutsch: New York feiert die Kapitulation Japans. Sie warfen alles mögliche und küssten jeden am Times Square
English: "New York City celebrating the surrender of Japan. They threw anything and kissed anybody in Times Square."
  • National archive number 80-G-377094
  • Naval Historical Center #520697
Date Taken on 14 August 1945
Source US archives
Author
Victor Jorgensen  (1913–1994)  
 
Description American photographer and war photographer
Date of birth/death 8 July 1913  14 June 1994 
Location of birth/death Portland West Linn
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Camera location40° 45′ 25″ N, 73° 59′ 10″ W  Heading=0° View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap
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Notes

In the Winter 2004, Vol. 36, No. 4 of the National Archives magazine, Prologue, named this image one of its top ten requested images[1]

The other 10 were:

  • Picture of Elvis and Nixon not one of the 10 but mentioned in the article
  • Shot of American forces during the en:Battle of Normandy
  • Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta in February 1945
  • en:USS Shaw exploding
  • Atomic Bomb named Fat Man is the codename of the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki
  • Lt. Victor Jorgensen's picture of the VJ Day Kiss at Times Square
  • We Can Do It! Poster
  • Result of Slave whipping
  • Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River
  • March on Washington, August 28, 1963, shows civil rights and union leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph L. Rauh Jr., Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Walter Reuther
  • Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

References

  1. ↑ By Ellen Fried (Winter 2004
    date QS:P,+2004-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720553
    , Vol. 36, No. 4). From Pearl Harbor to Elvis: Images That Endure. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.

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