The victorious “kiss of a sailor and a nurse” was repeated in New York

In New York, in Times Square, hundreds of loving couples repeated the kiss of a sailor and a nurse. He was captured on this square by photographer Alfred Eisenstadt, on Victory Day over Japan.

Flash mob started after the countdown: "Five, four, three, two, one, kiss!"

The lovers put their lips to each other, repeating the pose of the heroes of the famous picture. The veterans Ray and Ellie Williams from Georgia were the first to meet in a kiss, and they got married the next day after the announcement of the surrender of Japan, which marked the end of World War II.

A seven-meter-high sculpture of a sailor and a nurse frozen in a kiss, who had remained unknown for a long time, rose above those who were kissing, despite the fact that their picture was in Life Magazine. In the seventies, it turned out that the nurse was a certain Edith Shane (however, this fact is still controversial), and many WWII veterans, in particular Glenn McDuffie, declared themselves to be a sailor from the picture.