Everlasting Embrace: Man From Iconic WWII Kiss Photo Dies
Ah, the kiss. Not just any kiss, that kiss. The one captured by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt on that August day in 1945 as word spread of the Japanese surrender from World War II.
But the story of this kiss has come to an end. Glenn McDuffie, the man believed to have been the U.S. Navy sailor in the iconic photo, died earlier this week in Dallas. The BBC reports that he passed away Sunday at the age of 86.
Though other men claimed to be the sailor in the image, McDuffie's identity was all but confirmed in 2008 when Houston Police Department forensic artist Lois Gibson matched his muscles, ears and other features to the young man in the photograph, notes the Associated Press.
McDuffie was the last surviving principal involved in the photo: Edith Shain, the nurse caught in the impromptu embrace, died in 2010; photographer Eisenstaedt passed in 1995. All will be remembered for their roles in this candid, and hopeful, moment in American history.
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