Goodbye kisser
The group were in a rigid inflatable boat George, then 89, with photo THREE men were arrested on suspicion of immigration offences yesterday after 34 people were rescued from a boat in the Channel.
A lifeboat and a UK Border Force patrol vessel intercepted the rigid inflatable boat, which was spotted at around 6.30am off the Kent village of Kingsdown. A witness said he saw at least one child – a boy aged about six, accompanied by a woman – among the suspected migrants, who are all believed to be in good health.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “Border Force responded to an incident in the Channel involving a small boat containing 34 people.
“The group were brought to Dover THE American sailor photographed as he swept a nurse into his arms and kissed her full on the lips in Times Square on V-J Day has died, aged 95.
George Mendonsa’s daughter, Sharon Molleur, said her father fell at the Rhode Island care home, where he lived with her mother, had a seizure and died on Sunday.
Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed him kissing Greta Zimmer Friedman, a dental assistant in a nurse’s uniform, on August 14, 1945.
The photo became iconic after it was printed in Life magazine.
Mr Mendonsa always maintained he was the sailor kissing Greta, who died in 2016, aged 92, but could never convince Life.
Facial recognition and experts in photography and forensic anthro- pology declared he was the person in the shot. Author Lawrence Verria, who wrote about the photo, said: “The evidence is so overwhelming. There really is no doubt.”
Mr Mendonsa told Verria that after a Kamikaze attack on the USS Bunker Hill, the ship pulled alongside the hospital boat, Bountiful, and he watched from the helm as the nurses worked on the sailors.
“They were in a bad way,” he kept saying as he told the story to Verria.
He was in New York, on leave, when the end of the war was announced and remembered the women in white. Verria said: “He sees the nurse, he can’t help himself. It’s what everybody was doing, kissing and hugging.
“As soon as the kiss was over, they went their separate ways.”
As soon as the kiss was over they went their separate ways LAWRENCE VERRIA WHO WROTE OF PIC
and have been transferred to immigration officials for interview.”
It comes after 10 people were picked up near Dover in the early hours of Friday.
On January 21, a further 23 people were intercepted trying to complete the perilous cross-channel journey in two separate incidents.