WWII nurse in iconic kissing photograph dies
China Daily | Updated: 2010-06-24 07:44
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Edith Shain, the nurse in an iconic photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, became famous after the image was published in Life magazine. The US sailor's identity is not known. Alfred Eisenstaedt for life magazine / Reuters Archive |
LOS ANGELES - 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 II has died at the age of 91, her family said on Tuesday.
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