Woman who claimed she was nurse in famous Times Square WWII kissing photo dies in LA
By Robert Jablon, APWednesday, June 23, 2010
Woman who says she was nurse from WWII photo dies
LOS ANGELES — Edith Shain, who said she was the nurse kissed by a sailor in Times Square in an iconic World War II photo, has died.
Her son, Robert, says Shain was 91 when she died Sunday at her Los Angeles home.
In August 1945, Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstadt snapped the famous photo of a sailor smooching a nurse on V-J Day to celebrate Japan’s surrender and the end of World War II. But he never got their names, and several women have claimed to be the nurse.
Shain moved to California after the war and continued nursing but also taught kindergarten in Los Angeles for 30 years.
Robert Shain says his mother appeared in Memorial Day parades around the country and made a point of teaching youngsters about the war.
