<P> Since the identity of the woman had been claimed, in its August 1980 issue, the editors of Life asked that the kissing sailor come forward . In the October 1980 issue, the editors reported that eleven men and three women had come forward claiming to be the subjects of the photograph . Listed in the October 1980 issue as claiming to be the woman were Greta Friedman and Barbara Sokol as well as Edith Shain . </P> <P> On June 20, 2010, Shain died at age 91 of liver cancer . In April 2012 the issue of who the woman was, remained, as a new book on the topic was about to be released . The authors, George Galdorisi and Lawrence Verria, stated that Shain could not have been the woman because her height of just 4 ft 10 in (1.47 m) was insufficient in comparison with the height of any of the men claiming to be the sailor . </P> <P> Numerous men have claimed to be the sailor, including Donald Bonsack, John Edmonson, Wallace C. Fowler, Clarence "Bud" Harding, Walker Irving, James Kearney, Marvin Kingsburg, Arthur Leask, George Mendonça, Jack Russell, and Bill Swicegood . The issue regarding the identity of the kissers is no longer contended in a court of law . </P> <P> George Mendonsa of Newport, Rhode Island, on leave from the USS The Sullivans (DD - 537), was watching a movie with his future wife, Rita, at Radio City Music Hall when the doors opened and people started screaming the war was over . George and Rita joined the partying on the street, but when they could not get into the packed bars decided to walk down the street . It was then that George saw a woman in a white dress walk by and took her into his arms and kissed her, "I had quite a few drinks that day and I considered her one of the troops--she was a nurse ." In one of the four pictures that Eisenstaedt took, Mendonsa claims that Rita is visible in the background behind the kissing couple . </P>

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