"Sculpture of end-of-WWII kiss lands in Normandy" Topic
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Tango01 | 23 Sep 2014 10:20 p.m. PST |
"A sculpture honoring a photograph of a kiss in Times Square that captured New York's celebration as World War II ended has gone up in Normandy for a one-year visit. Cranes and construction crews in the French city of Caen on Tuesday hoisted and locked together pieces of "Unconditional Surrender," an 8-meter (25-foot) cast-bronze sculpture in color of a sailor and a nurse in a lip-locked embrace. The sculpture by Seward Johnson is based on a Navy photographer's black-and-white snapshot taken Aug. 15, 1945, according to the Sculpture Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit that owns the work. It also resembles a famous photo taken by Life magazine's Alfred Eisenstaedt on that day…" link Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Pete Melvin | 24 Sep 2014 2:15 a.m. PST |
I was at Omaha earlier in the year when they were installing a statue of a soldier dragging his injured buddy to safety, theyd left it just bronze which I wish they had done with this as it looks a bit tacky all coloured in. |
Bellbottom | 24 Sep 2014 2:38 a.m. PST |
Be telling me next it was Americans who liberated Caen |
panzerCDR | 24 Sep 2014 4:59 a.m. PST |
Don't forget Paris. And Berlin! We sure made the Germans pay for bombing Pearl Harbor! ;) Otherwise neat statue. |
zoneofcontrol | 24 Sep 2014 6:11 a.m. PST |
"Be telling me next it was Americans who liberated Caen" Well, when everyone realized that Monty couldn't get close to doing it, Ike turned to his reliever, Gen. George Patton, to come through and cover for him, again. He ended up saving needless casualties and ending the war a full two years early. Oh, and thanks to the Brits, Russians and those other guys for helping out. "We sure made the Germans pay for bombing Pearl Harbor! ;)"
That wasn't Germany! Those were US B-52s and F-4 Phantoms that were painted to look like German Zeros. It was all a US gubbermint plan to get us involved in WWII so we could come in off the bench and rally all those defeated nations for a comeback win. EDIT: I guess I should wave the Sarcasm/Joke flag before somebody takes me too seriously. |
Cadian 7th | 25 Sep 2014 8:55 a.m. PST |
"Germans…!?" "Forget about it, he's on a roll!" ;) |
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