Hundreds of couples poured into New York’s Times Square Friday to reenact the famous photograph of a kiss between a sailor and a woman celebrating the end of World War II. Photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt took the photograph as news broke that Japan had surrendered on August 14, 1945, bringing to a close the most brutal conflict the world has ever known. The photo, known as ‘V-J Day in Times Square’ for Victory over Japan, shows an American sailor kissing a woman in white, full on the mouth as her right foot rises off the ground. Some of Friday’s couples turned out in replica outfits,

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