Unconditional Surrender Statue. San Diego, California If the photograph of raising the American flag on Iwo Jima is the quintessential World War II icon for triumph in a just war, then "Unconditional Surrender" is the icon for the just rewards of victory.
Chicago lost its Marilyn Monroe statue a while back, and San Diego struggled for quite awhile to keep the statue of a Navy sailor kissing a nurse. The statue, designed after the famous photo taken in Times Square from World War II, was in San Diego along the harbor in the late 2000s before being removed and returned.
Some see it as the perfect military tribute, others dismiss it as kitschy, and many just want to smooch in its shadow. Love it or hate it, the “Kissing Statue” is back at the Port of San Diego.
The “Kissing Statue,” which has been gone from San Diego’s shoreline for nearly a year, made its grand return on Wednesday morning – just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Unconditional Surrender Statue Beyond heroically scaled version of the famous WWII photo of a sailor kissing a nurse. The original fiberglass statue was dismantled May 30, 2012, and replaced by an identical statue of painted bronze in February 2013.
070210-N-7643B-079 San Diego (Feb. 10, 2007) – The statue "Unconditional Surrender," which represents a famous photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a Sailor kissing a nurse in Time Square, New …
Clearly holding tremendous historical significance, this statue especially caters to the large military presence in San Diego, where a number of US Navy facilities, Marine Corps bases, and Coast Guard stations house and employ over 100,000 military personnel.
That statue, or more precisely, the photo that sparked it, is the subject of an upcoming book, “The Kissing Sailor” co-authored by Coronado resident George Galdorisi and Rhode Island history …
Unconditional Surrender is a series of sculptures by Seward Johnson resembling a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, V–J day in Times Square, but said by Johnson to be based on a similar, less well known, photograph by Victor Jorgensen.
California Dreaming 🙂 This inspiring 25 foot tall statue is a beautiful tribute to the infamous couple kissing in Times Square when celebrate the end of World War II, a MUST SEE in San Diego, don't miss it If you're visiting San Diego waterfront next to the USS Midway Museum.