Edith Shain, the nurse being kissed in an iconic photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt in Times Square on V-J Day (above), has died in Los Angeles at age 91.
According to Reuters:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A nurse famously photographed being kissed by an American sailor in New York's Times Square in 1945 to celebrate the end of World War Two has died at the age of 91, her family said on Tuesday.
The V-J Day picture of the white-clad Edith Shain by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured an epic moment in U.S. history and became an iconic image marking the end of the war after being published in Life magazine. The identity of the nurse in the photograph was not known until the late 1970s when Shain wrote to the photographer saying that she was the woman in the picture taken on August 14 at a time when she had been working at Doctor's Hospital in New York City.
The identity of the sailor has not been resolved and is still in dispute.
Many Americans from around the country celebrated the end of World War II in the streets of major cities when Japan surrendered.
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