二战激吻照主角辞世

二战激吻照主角辞世

Sailor who kissed nurse in famous WWII photo dies

　　Glenn McDuffie holds a portrait of himself as a young man and a copy of Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic Life magazine shot of a sailor, who McDuffie claims is him, embracing a nurse in a white uniform in New York's Times Square, seen larger on left of this split photograph. Photo: REUTERS/AP

　　A man who became known for claiming he was theUSsailor kissing a woman in Times Square in a famous Second World War-era photo taken by a Life magazine photographer has died. Glenn McDuffie was 86.

　　McDuffie died on 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 the war, 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, Ms 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," Ms Gibson said of the match. "It was perfect."

　　The identification remained controversial, partly because other men also claimed to have been the sailor in the image, but also because Life magazine, whose photographer had died years earlier, was unable to confirm that McDuffie was in fact the sailor, noting Eisenstaedt had never gotten names for those in the picture.

　　Yet for McDuffie, Ms Gibson's word was enough. A well-respected forensic artist who was in the 2005 Guinness Book of World Records for helping police identify more suspects than any other forensic artist, Ms Gibson said McDuffie was ecstatic when she told him the results he had waited 62 years to hear.

　　And so began a whirlwind lifestyle of going to air shows, gun shows, fundraisers and parties to tell his story. Women would pay $10 to take a picture kissing him on the cheek, Ms Gibson said.

　　"He would make money and kiss women," Ms Gibson said. "He had the most glamorous life of any 80 year old."

　　McDuffie had told the AP he was changing trains in New York when he was told that Japan had surrendered.

　　"I was so happy. I ran out in the street," said McDuffie, then 18 and on his way to visit his girlfriend in Brooklyn.

　　"And then I saw that nurse," he said. "She saw me hollering and with a big smile on my face. ... I just went right to her and kissed her."

　　"We never spoke a word," he added. "Afterward, I just went on the subway across the street and went to Brooklyn."

　　Mrs Bell, said on anniversaries of the war's end her father would recall that moment and the air of excitement in Times Square.

　　For years it bothered him that he wasn't identified as the man in the photo, she said, and he turned to Ms Gibson for help to clear it up.

　　"He wanted to do it before he died," she said.

　　McDuffie is survived by his daughter and two grandchildren. His funeral will be held March 21 at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.

右图为格伦·麦克达菲右手拿着自己年轻时的照片，左手拿着《生活》杂志刊登的标志性海军亲吻护士照。海军亲吻护士照由阿尔弗雷德·艾森斯塔特拍摄，照片上，那名海军在纽约时代广场上拥抱着一名穿着白色制服的护士。麦克达菲声称他是照片中的海军。左图为海军亲吻护士照的扩大版。（图片来源：路透社/美联社）

据《每日电讯报》2014年3月15日报道，声称自己是海军亲吻护士照中那名海军士兵而出名的格伦·麦克达菲去世了，享年86岁。美国海军在时代广场亲吻护士照是《生活》杂志摄影师在二战期间拍摄的著名照片。

麦克达菲的女儿格伦达·贝尔告诉美联社，3月9日，麦克达菲在达拉斯的养老院里去世。

从战场上回来后，麦克达菲曾做过邮递员和半职业棒球手。六年前，休斯顿警察局的法医艺术家洛伊斯·吉布森经过鉴定，确认麦克达菲就是那名弯下腰亲吻怀中护士的海军，从此以后麦克达菲的生活变得更令人兴奋。

麦克达菲抱着枕头拍了约100张照片，摆出1945年8月14日摄影师阿尔弗雷德·艾森斯塔特拍摄那张照片时的姿势。吉布森女士说，她能看出80岁的麦克达菲和原图中年轻海军在肌肉、耳朵和其他特征上是相匹配的。

“我很肯定，”吉布森女士说，“完全匹配。”

那次鉴定的结果一直备受争议，部分原因是其他人也声称自己是照片上的海军；另一部分原因是摄影师艾森斯塔特早几年就去世了，由于艾森斯塔特从未记下过照片中人物的名字，《生活》杂志无法确定麦克达菲是不是就是那名海军。

但是对麦克达菲来说，有吉布森女士的鉴定就够了。吉布森女士是一位备受尊敬的法医艺术家，她曾出现在《2005年吉尼斯世界纪录大全》上，因为她帮警察啊辨认出的嫌疑犯最多。吉布森女士说，当她把麦克达菲等待了62年的鉴定结果告诉他后，他欣喜若狂。

于是麦克达菲开始了应接不暇的生活，去航空展、枪支展、资金筹集活动或派对讲述自己的故事。吉布森女士说，女人付10美元拍一张亲吻他脸颊的照片。

“他挣了钱，还吻了女人，”吉布森说，“相比其他80岁的人，他的生活最具魅力。”

麦克达菲告诉过美联社，听到日本投降的消息时，他正在纽约换乘去布鲁克林的车。

“我太高兴了，我冲到街上，”麦克达菲说。当时他18岁，正在去看布鲁克林看他女朋友的路上。

“那时我看到了那位护士，”他说，“她看到我大声喊叫、满脸笑容······我直接走上去，亲吻了她。”

“我们没说过一句话，”他还说，“后来，我直接到街对面坐了地铁，到了布鲁克林。”

贝尔太太说，在每年纪念二战结束的那天，她的父亲都会回想起那个时刻，回想起时代广场上激动的氛围。

她还说，多年来，他一直为自己未被鉴定为照片中的海军而烦恼，于是他才求助于吉布森女士，希望她帮忙辨认。

“他想在自己去世前获得鉴定。”她说。

麦克达菲有一个女儿和两个外孙，他的葬礼将于3月21日在达拉斯-沃思堡国家公墓举行。

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