From the Sydney Morning Herald:
It is one of the most iconic images of World War II, an anonymous young sailor dipping a nurse backward while giving her a kiss in Times Square on August 14, 1945.
The photograph by a Life magazine photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, symbolised the euphoria surrounding the news that the Japanese had surrendered and the war was over.
Edith Shain, a retired Los Angeles elementary school teacher who claimed to be the mystery nurse in the photo seen by millions around the world, died of cancer on Sunday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 91.
''Someone grabbed me and kissed me, and I let him because he fought for his country. I closed my eyes when I kissed him. I never saw him.''
