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TaʼrifKissing 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
Sanasi	Taken on 14 avgust 1945
Manba	US archives
Muallif	Victor Jorgensen (1913–1994)     Description American fotograf va war photographer Date of birth/death 8 iyul 1913  14 iyun 1994  Location of birth/death Portlend  West Linn  Hokimiyat nazorati : Q7926046 NAID: 10597563 MusicBrainz: de2cb808-551d-4415-8dd5-132304ec1772 creator QS:P170,Q7926046
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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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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:

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  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
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  en:USS Shaw exploding
• 
  Atomic Bomb named Fat Man is the codename of the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki
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  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

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.