2/18/2019 – Sailor kissing woman in famous V-J Day photo dies at 95

This entry was posted in 2019 Events, Highlights and Headlines Hollywood on February 18, 2019 by Flea

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The sailor (George Mendonsa) kissing a woman in New York’s Time Square in an iconic photo at the end of World War II died Sunday in Rhode Island.

The woman, Greta Zimmer Friedman, died in 2016 at 92 years old after a struggle with pneumonia. She was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with her husband.

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