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Man known as kissing sailor in WWII-era image dies
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...-dies/6431013/
A man who became known for claiming he was the sailor kissing a woman in Times Square in a famous World War II-era photo taken by a Life magazine photographer has died.
Glenn McDuffie was 86.
McDuffie died March 9 in a nursing home in Dallas, his daughter, Glenda Bell, told The Associated Press.
A mail carrier and semi-professional baseball player after he returned from World War II, McDuffie's life became more exciting about six years ago when Houston Police Department forensic artist Lois Gibson was able to identify him as the young man leaning over the woman in his arms to kiss her.
By taking about 100 pictures of McDuffie using a pillow to pose as he did in the picture taken Aug. 14, 1945, by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gibson said, she was able to match the muscles, ears and other features of the then-80-year-old McDuffie to the young sailor in the original image.
"I was absolutely positive," Gibson said of the match.
"It was perfect."
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