Kissing was a favorite pose encouraged by media photographers of service personnel during the war, but Alfred Eisenstaedt was photographing a spontaneous event that occurred in Times Square as the announcement of the end of the war was made by President Truman. Eisenstaedt never got the names of the people in the photograph he took on August 14, 1945. Since the photo has become famous, 11 men have claimed to be the kisser, and 3 women claimed to be the nurse.
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