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Great Moments In Photojournalism: VJ Day, August 14, 1945

Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words:

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Edith Shain, the nurse in one of the great iconographic photographs of World War II, as shot by Alfred Eisenstaedt, died today at the age of 91.


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