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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.

Woman kissed by sailor in famous V-J Day photo dies aged 92

The kissing couple were perfect strangers. The woman was Greta Friedman, a dental assistant wearing a nurse’s uniform. “It wasn’t my choice to be kissed. The guy just came over and kissed or grabbed,” she told an interviewer.

“It was the moment,” Mendonsa CBS in 2012. “You come back from the Pacific and finally, the war ends. The excitement of the war being over, plus I had a few drinks. So when I saw the nurse, I grabbed her and I kissed her.”

Friedman died in 2016, aged 92.

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