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The final stages of the removal of "Unconditional Surrender" at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
A crowd watches as the removal of "Unconditional Surrender" begins at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
“Unconditional Surrender” which is based on the “A kiss to Remember” photograph.
Picture taken at USS Midway Museum • San Diego California.
“Unconditional Surrender,” is 25-foot, 6,000 pound statue by world-renowned artist J. Seward Johnson commemorating a famous World War II photo. (photos)
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The Fine People At Wikipeda have this to say about the original picture(s) this was based on.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%e2%80%93J_day_in_Times_Square
V–J day in Times Square, perhaps the most famous photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, is of an American sailor kissing a young woman on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945, that was originally published in Life magazine. (The photograph is known under various names: V-J day in Times Square, V-Day, etc.[1])
Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the V-J celebrations he didn't get a chance to get names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either kisser and several people have laid claim to being the subjects. The photo was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%e2%80%93J_day_in_Times_Square
However it does seem this statute is based on another photo taken at the same time by a navy photographer. (from the same Wiki entry):
U.S. Navy photo journalist Victor Jorgensen captured another view of the same scene, which was published in the New York Times.[4] This photograph shows less of Times Square in the background and does not show the full body of either the sailor or the nurse. Unlike the Eisenstaedt photograph, this photograph is in the public domain (by virtue of being produced by a federal government employee on official position).
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I have a few more pictures of this shoot to upload. I will get this one up now and the rest at a later point.
General Junot´s solitude walking to its surrender...
During a medieval re-enactment of the Battle of Vimeiro; Portugal. The Battle of Vimeiro was fought on the 21 of August 1808, during the first French invasion, between the French army, commanded by Jean Andoche Junot (with an army of 13000 men), and the Anglo-Portuguese army under Sir Arthur Wellesley, future Duke of Wellington (with approximately 19000 men).
Surrender every word, every thought every sound.
Surrender every touch, every smile, every frown.
Surrender all the pain we've endured until now.
Surrender all the hope that I lost you have found.
Surrender yourself to me.
I think I found a flower in a field of weeds,
I think I found a flower in a field of weeds.
Searching until my hands bleed,
This flower don't belong to me.
"Unconditional Surrender" is dismantled at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
Heh, after we had iceys with the highest alcohol content known to man we definitely surrendered some booty
Tourists take photos as a piece of "Unconditional Surrender" is placed on the ground at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
The final stages of the removal of "Unconditional Surrender" at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
Crews guide the upper portion of "Unconditional Surrender" safely on the ground at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
Lieutenant-General Imamura surrenders his ceremonial sword to Lieutenant-General Sturdee, GOC 1st Australian Army.
My late father is in whites, standing in the group to the left of the Japanese delegation.
The "kiss" section of "Unconditional Surrender" is placed on the ground at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
Personal Photo By: Andrew Bosko
America’s battle against Japan was a tough battle. Both sides were strong in their efforts to defend themselves, but due to better strategies and stronger, more advanced weaponry, America won. It wasn’t until the bombing at Pear Harbor did America become engrossed with Japan. Many different battles were fought before Japan surrendered to America. America’s militaries banned together and fought not only at Iwo Jima, but in other areas such as the island of Okinawa, the main land of Japan, and the Philippines. With the Navy striking from under water “against merchant shipping and Japan’s lines of communications” they were able to take down and overpower the Japanese navy. The U.S.’s B-29s were “the only very-long-range bombers that saw action in large numbers”, making their overhead combat a success, and finally their ground troops, such as the Army and Marines had tactics that over ran the Japanese’s’. With the dropping of atomic bombs on August 6 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, “the Soviets entry into the war in the far East, and the disintegration of the Japanese economy are morale” all amounted to Japan surrendering. On September 2, 1945 Japan’s government formally signed the Cairo Declaration, which called for Japan’s unconditional surrender.
James, Clayton D and Anne Sharp Wells. From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day: Te American Armed Forces in World War II. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995.
During a French counterattack the trench can be occupied once more.
Here I've used the Adrian and the German helmet together with the gas mask.
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The final stages of the removal of "Unconditional Surrender" at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).