The woman who was kissed by an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died at the age of 92. Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse's uniform on Aug. 14, 1945, known as V-J Day, the day the Japanese surrendered. That's when George Mendonsa spotted Friedman, spun her around and planted a kiss on her. The photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt is called "V-J Day in Times Square" but is known to most the world over as simply, "The Kiss." "It wasn't that much of a kiss," Friedman said in an interview with the Veterans History Project in 2005.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 10, 2016 23:26 UTC