Summary

DescriptionKissing the War Goodbye.jpg	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 1945Category:United States photographs taken on 1945-08-14
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  Authority file : Q7926046 NAID: 10597563 MusicBrainz: de2cb808-551d-4415-8dd5-132304ec1772 creator QS:P170,Q7926046
Permission (Reusing this file)	This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 520697. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. العربية ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/− Category:Images from the National Archives and Records Administration#520697
Other versions	TIFF

Camera location	40° 45′ 25″ N, 73° 59′ 10″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	40.756944; -73.986111

Persons on the image:

• George Mendonsa (Q61762945)
• Greta Zimmer Friedman (Q26857910)

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Licensing

	This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.
	This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

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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
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  Shot of American forces during the en:Battle of Normandy
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  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.