FYI ... The girl he’s kissing is not the woman who eventually became his wife. She isn’t even the woman he was with that day. She was just a random nurse he spotted and, in his sheer exuberance, made photographic history.
His target was taken by complete surprise and was reportedly not flattered by the gesture.
I actually like the expression on the girl’s face his right elbow is pointing at more than the iconic kiss. It also most seems to say “Why didn’t you pick me, sailor?”
“His target was taken by complete surprise and was reportedly not flattered by the gesture.”
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In those days she would have called him a “jerk” or an “idiot” and that would be that.
Now it would be world wide news,calling it a sexual assault.
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