#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/11/2008

Edith Shain, the nurse in the famous photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a sailor kissing a nurse in New York’s Times Square on V-J Day, tries to imitate the photo’s embrace with Nick Mayo, a member of the cast of the musical South Pacific as they pose with other South Pacific cast members at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York, Sunday, Nov. 9th 2008. Shain, 90, is in New York to serve as the grand marshal of the 2008 New York City Veterans Day parade.

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/24/2010 #1

Edith Shain in April displays a photo of her famous V-J Day kiss with a sailor at the end of World War Two in Times Square, NY. Shain, who claimed to be the nurse photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt, died Sunday in Los Angeles.

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#3 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 06/20/2022 #13

In 2010, Edith Shain, who claimed to be the nurse smooched by a sailor in Times Square in a famous Life magazine photograph marking the end of World War Two, died in Los Angeles at 91. #EdithShain

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