The sailor captured in an iconic photograph that shows him lustily kissing a nurse in Times Square on the day after Japan surrendered in World War II has died.
Glenn McDuffie, who is shown bending the woman over his knee as they jubilantly smooch in Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous photo, was 86 at the time of his death, according to the Houston Chronicle.
McDuffie said that he was 18 when the famous shot with nurse Edith Shain was taken.
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“I heard someone running and stopping right in front of us. I raised my head up, and it was a photographer,” McDuffie told the paper in 2007. “I tried to get my hand out of the way so I wouldn't block her face, and I kissed her just long enough for him to take the picture.”
Several other men claimed to be the sailor in the photo over the years, but McDuffie collaborated with Houston Police Department's forensic artist, Lois Gibson, in 2007 to prove that he was the sailor sharing the kiss.
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McDuffie enjoyed the celebrity status that the photo provided him.
“My dad loved it,” his daughter Glenda Bell told the paper. Any time someone invited him to come somewhere, like fund-raisers for veterans, McDuffie was there, she said.
“He would recreate the kiss with women happily, but not with men,” she said.
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