![]() The Sullivans was commissioned in the fall of 1943 and headed west across the Pacific, where she was soon in the thick of fighting. Mendonsa completed quartermaster training and was assigned to USS The Sullivans, a new destroyer named after the five Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa, who died in November 1942 when a Japanese submarine sank their cruiser near Guadalcanal. But with the nation now at war, he enlisted in the navy after the 1942 fishing season. As a fisherman, Mendonsa had a deferment from the United States’ first-ever peacetime military draft, which had begun earlier in the year. On December 7, 1941, George Mendonsa was walking out of a Newport restaurant when he heard shouting in the street: the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. Mendonsa, now 82, was born in Rhode Island to Portuguese immigrants. One of those men, George Mendonsa, is so certain of his case that he has enlisted the latest in facial identification technology to support it. Over the years, many men have claimed to be the sailor, but Life has not endorsed any of their claims. But the photographer-Alfred Eisenstaedt, one of Life’s finest-took no notes that day, and the identities of the sailor and nurse remain a mystery. Since the picture appeared on the cover of the August 27, 1945, issue of Life, it has become the magazine’s most reproduced image. The image manages to capture the sense of relief, exhilaration, and unbridled joy brought by the news that Japan had surrendered and the most terrible war in history was finally over. ![]() The nurse looks surprised as the sailor bends her backwards, her right foot raised off the ground, her left arm behind her. Taken in New York City’s Times Square on August 14, 1945, it shows an exuberant sailor kissing a nurse. It has become an iconic image of the 20th century. Do we know who they are today? Well, maybe… by Tom HuntingtonĮveryone knows the photo. The text of his speech as well as pictures from the festival are also available in our collection.Did the sailor and the nurse in the famous V-J Day kiss scene know each other? No, they didn’t. I also have not seen any other pictures from Eisenstaedt’s time on campus.ĭuring the time Eisenstaedt was on campus, the Gibson A Danes, Dean of the School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, spoke at the opening of the annual Festival of the Arts and the dedication of the expanded art gallery (May 9, 1961) . ![]() As far as I know, the article was never published. The Iowa City Public Library Digital History Project has a picture of Kenney’s which is posted in the Iowa City Past Tumblr. which was popular with the Writer’s Workshop participants. Kenney’s was a bar on the west side of Clinton St. The full text of both articles can be read in the links above and has been excepted here. SUI was chosen for the possible feature, Miss Baker said, “because of its varied and active creative arts program which has national reputation.” She mentioned outstanding persons such as Mauricio Lasansky and Paul Engle. ![]() They have visited several students’ homes, browsed about the Art, Theatre and Music Buildings, and have even been to Kenney’s.Įisenstaedt pointed out that they do not know the publication date of the story - or even that it will be published. Their interest is in more than the conventional classroom situation, she added - in how students relax, where they live, their work, pasttimes, parties. The team was here “to re-create in pictures the life of graduate students in the creative arts at SUI,” Miss Baker explained. The May 16 issue has a much longer piece by Dianne Grossett and Jerry Parker.Įisenstaedt, 63, left the SUI campus Saturday after a two-week stay on assignment with Life reporter Elizabeth Baker. The voice of authority was speaking when he ordered Paul Engle and Donald Justice to move their class to another spot on the riverbank for a shot. Named Photographer of the Year in 1950, Eisenstaedt noted his 25th anniversary as a photographer in 1954, and is known for his superb portraits and for his sensitive news pictures. DI reporter Anne Stearns, wrote in the issue:Ī pleasant surprise for a journalist during the Wednesday morning presentation was photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt of Life Magazine, who commandeered ladders, tree branches and people (notable or students) and arranged them for his pictures. Looking through the Daily Iowan archive, it was easy to determine that he visited campus in May 1961. A few months ago, I saw a photograph (not in our collection) taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life magazine of students drawing a live nude model.
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