90-year-old says she's the nurse in photo
China Daily | Updated: 2008-11-11 07:46
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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 on Sunday. Insert: V-J day Kiss, photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt. AP |
A 90-year-old who says she's the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II's most famous photographs reunited in New York with the Navy on Sunday, days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city's Veterans Day parade.
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