Nurse in Times Square pic reunites with Navy

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Edith Shain is held by members of the cast of the musical South Pacific, from left, Victor Hawks, Charlie Brady, Nick Mayo, Christian Delcroix and Michael Arnold, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York on Nov. 9.


Nurse in Times Square pic reunites with Navy
By Richard Pyle - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Nov 10, 2008 7:14:38 EST

NEW YORK — 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 town with the Navy on Sunday — days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city’s Veterans Day parade.

Edith Shain of Los Angeles, donning a white nurse’s uniform like the one she wore back in 1945, went to see the musical revival of “South Pacific” and posed for pictures, being hoisted off her feet on stage by five of the actors in their Navy whites.

On Tuesday, she’ll ride in the parade at the head of a contingent of World War II veterans.

The “South Pacific” event was a touching reminder of history, but very different from Aug. 15, 1945, the day Shain recalls that she joined thousands of people whooping it up after Japan surrendered. Right there on Broadway and 45th Street, a sailor suddenly grabbed and kissed her — and the moment was caught by Alfred Eisenstaedt, a Life magazine photographer.

His picture from V-J Day became one of the 20th century’s most iconic images. But Eisenstaedt didn’t get the names of either party, and efforts years later by Life to identify them produced a number of claimants, says Bobbi Baker Burrows, a Life editor with deep knowledge of the subject.


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