The white-clad nurse photographed kissing an American soldier in Times Square at the end of World War II has died at the age of 91, USA Today reported Wednesday. Edith Shain, then a nurse at ...

Mendonsa was shown kissing Greta Zimmer Friedman, a dental assistant in a nurse's uniform, on Aug. 14, 1945 — known as V-J Day, the day Japan surrendered to the United States. People spilled ...

Correction appended: August 14, 2015. When Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, on Aug. 14, 1945, he knew he’d captured something special.

A US Army soldier from Charlie Company ... An American sailor kissed a young nurse in this iconic photo from V-J Day in Times Square in NYC on Aug. 14, 1945.

she encountered a soldier who also wanted a kiss. But that was enough for her, and she and the friend she was with left Times Square. Shain later moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as a nurse ...