He died at the age of 95, the sailor of the emblematic image of the kiss in New York "Diario The capital of La Plata

WASHINGTON (United States of America): the sailor who kissed a woman in the middle of Times Square while people were celebrating the end of World War II on the streets of New York, protagonist of a photo iconic of the time, deceased at the age of 95, his daughter reported to the Providence newspaper.

George Mendonsa He suffered a stroke on Sunday after falling in the asylum where he lived in Middleton, Rhode Island, said his daughter Sharon Molleur.

In the famous picture, one of the four that he took Alfred Eisenstadt for the Life MagazineMendonsa is seen leaning over the woman as she is kissing and dressed in a white nurse uniform.

Mendonsa, deployed in the Pacific during World War II, was on vacation when the photo was taken.

For a long time, he badured that he was the sailor of the photo, but this has only recently been confirmed by the use of facial recognition technology.

Greta Zimmer Friedman, the woman in the picture, he died in 2016 to 92.

Eisenstadt had not asked for the names of the two strangers he had captured with his camera while they were kissing each other. Later, he recounted that he had seen the sailor who had run into the street and caught the first girl who had crossed it.

"I ran in front of him with my Leica looking over my shoulder, but none of the possible photos did me happy," he wrote in "Eisenstadt on Eisenstadt".

"Suddenly, I saw someone catching something white." I turned around and clicked on the moment the sailor kissed the nurse.If she had been dressed in black, she would never have taken the picture. "