Unearthed World War II Pictures Show A Never-Before-Seen Side of History

Soldier's Kiss

Taken in Time Square on Victory against Japan Day, one photographer named Alfred Eisenstaedt caught this moment between a returned soldier and a mystery woman. Once he saw her, he immediately grabbed and kissed her. While extremely well known, this photo has also stirred up quite a lot of controversy since the woman, Greta Zimmer Friedman, never knew the man.  

Ford Island

Amid wrecked planes on the Ford Island seaplane base, American soldiers stood watching as the USS Shaw met its final fate. The ship had exploded from bombs dropped by the Japanese. This is one of the many perspectives seen on the fated day of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. It occurred in the early Sunday morning at 8 A.M, waking soldiers in the worst way. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.