In the US, died sailor picture "The Kiss" Bashny.Net

In Texas, died a hero of one of the most famous photographs in history, the picture known as "The Kiss" (the author of the frame is Alfred Eisenstaedt). According to BBC News, a veteran of the US Navy Glenn McDuffie died in a nursing home at the age of 86 years. The cause of death of a pensioner is not called. It is known that in recent years he was seriously ill (in 2007 it was reported that he had lung cancer). McDuffie relatives have remained doch.

Glenn McDuffie was one of those who for many years after the war, claiming the presence of the frame Eisenstadt. The fact that the identity document with a photograph taken in Times Square in New York City was not established for sure: over the years with a guy image called more than a dozen men, including George Mendoza and Carl Muskarello. And the nurse with photos, Edith Shane Muskarello believed it, but later admitted that she had no certainty about this man. However, in 2007 Makdafii attracted to the analysis of photos of the assessor and the one considered the pictures of the military, where it was captured in the same position as the sailor with the "Kiss" came to the conclusion that the lens Eisenstadt hit it he. He himself said that he remembered the kiss with Shane, because it was a very big mouth.

Source: mirfactov.com/