The famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photo taken in Times Square on V-J Day in 1945 has made news off and on since it was taken. Read about the latest on this photo below.
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Alfred Eisenstaedt: Times Square V-J Day Photo
A while back I wrote about a sailor, Glenn McDuffie, who came forward to say he was the sailor in the famous Times Square V-J Day photo. He is one of ten or so sailors who have come forward over the years to claim to be the Sailor in the famous photo. We also have nurses who claim to be the nurse in the photo.
The photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, has said he just doesn’t know who was in the photo. In the excitement of the day, he took photos and neglected to stop to get the names of the people he was photographing. So the subjects of award winning photo have remained a mystery all these years. With both of their faces more or less obscured in the photo, its just hard to know.
Ninety-year-old Edith Shain has claimed to be the nurse in the photo. On Tuesday, she will ride at the head of a group of World War II veterans in a Veterans Day parade. She posed for pictures with some actors dressed as Sailors when she donned her nurses uniform and took in the musical ‘South Pacific’.
“As for the picture,” she says, “it says so many things — hope, love, peace and tomorrow. The end of the war was a wonderful experience, and that photo represents all those feelings.”
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