WASHINGTON: Greta Friedman, who claimed she was the woman kissed by a sailor in an iconic picture taken in New York's Times Square at the end of World War II, died yesterday, American media reported.Joshua Friedman, her son, said Greta died of pneumonia at an assisted living home in Virginia. "The Kissing Sailor", a 2012 book by George Galdorisi and Lawrence Verria, claimed to confirm the names of the world-famous couple from 1945. You come back from the Pacific, and finally, the war ends," Mendonsa told CBS News in 2012, about the exhilaration the crowds felt. So when I saw the nurse, I grabbed her, and I kissed her. He was kissing me," Greta told The New York Post some years ago.

Source: Times of India September 11, 2016 05:11 UTC