The "Kissing
Sailor" Life magazine
photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt
snapped the duo mid-kiss
in this Pulitzer Prize winning
photograph on Aug. 14, 1945, the
day Japan surrendered in WW
II., Kemah, TX reporter
Claire Durkee Worthington met up
with the famous Sailor Glenn
McDuffie at Lakewood Yacht
Clubs annual Keels & Wheels
shown in the picture on
your right.
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Glenn McDuffie
(the Kissing Sailor) and Kemah.Net
reporter Claire Durkee Worthington
at Lakewood Yacht Club Keels
and Wheels .Glenn McDuffie,
Update: the Kissing Sailor in
Iconic Photograph on the left ,
has died since this picture
was made.Mr. McDuffie died 9 March
14 in a nursing home in Dallas,
his daughter, Glenda Bell, told
us. We were saddened to hear this.
Photo above by Glenda Bel,
McDuffie's Daughter
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