The Times Square kiss between a sailor and a nurse celebrating the end of World War II, made famous by a Life magazine photograph, has been memorialized with a massive "kiss-in" 65 years later.
Hundreds of people gathered to recreate the iconic Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph taken August 14, 1945, the day Japan surrendered to the United States.
They locked lips at the base of a 26-foot (eight-meter) color statue which reproduces the famous image in three dimensions.
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The statue has been installed for the weekend at the corner of 44th Street and Broadway, the spot the picture was a taken.
The photographer died in 1995 and the nurse, Edith Shain, died earlier this year at the age of 91.
The Times Square Alliance is sponsoring the kiss-in, which will welcome veterans from World War II and Iraq and volunteers dressed in period costume who will celebrate at 7:03 pm (2306 GMT), the moment the words came across the Times ticker: "Official: Truman announces Japanese surrender."
