This day in history:
After the announcement of surrender from Japan was made official, celebrations took place around the world to mark the surrender, and thus the long-awaited end to WWII.
The most famous picture taken that day would be of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square. The spontaneous kiss was caught on camera but the photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, did not immediately ask for their identities.
Soon after the streets filled with people, and although many people have come forward over the years, neither person has been identified with certainty.
August 14, 1945 - 67 years ago today.
Portraits of the French Resistance - August, 1944.
A British Army patrol in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.
![“This [British] soldier was facing a hostile crowd of youngsters and, for a moment, his expression revealed his disdain.”
Northern Ireland - 1972
(Photo by Philip Jones Griffiths)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m48zxhJDKI1r18o95o1_500.jpg)
“This [British] soldier was facing a hostile crowd of youngsters and, for a moment, his expression revealed his disdain.”
Northern Ireland - 1972
“U.S. President John F. Kennedy speaks before reporters during a televised speech to the nation about the strategic blockade of Cuba, and his warning to the Soviet Union about missile sanctions, during the Cuban missile crisis, on October 24, 1962 in Washington, DC.”
A portrait of American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside.
He is also the man responsible for the word “sideburns,” which were originally called “burnsides” before the syllables were reversed.
Soviet soldier-mortar Sergei Ivanovich Platov leaves his autograph on a column of the Reichstag, 1945.
Anatoly Morozov
“This was an early attempt to co-ordinate infantry, artillery and air attacks.
With no radios in aircraft, success depended on precise timing.”
Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
