Well, maybe not the kiss: Her handsome young ... attempt was made to identify the sailor and the nurse until 1987, when Life magazine announced it was selling prints of Eisenstaedt’s photo.

George Mendonsa, the sailor photographed kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day ... and is a popular image used on posters. Several people later claimed to be the kissing couple.

Snapped at just the right moment, Eisenstaedt's photograph features of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on ... When he was a member of the Port’s Public Art committee, San Diego ...

The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman ... Mendonsa was shown kissing Greta Zimmer Friedman, a dental assistant in a nurse's uniform, on Aug. 14, 1945, known as VJ-Day, the day Japan ...

The sailor and nurse from the original photograph were never identified, despite the fact that their kiss was preserved first on the cover of Life Magazine, and later on posters adorning the dorm ...