The V-J Day kiss



It seems as if everybody's claiming to be the sailor--or the nurse he's kissing--in the famous photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE magazine on V-J Day, August 14, 1945.

http://www.life.com/Life/special/kiss01.html

But LIFE magazine has never identified the couple in the historic embrace--and probably never will....


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or is the nurse Edith Shain?

http://arthistory.about.com/b/a/193676.htm

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