101032464 Vietnam War Era Photographer

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Vietnam War-era Photographer

Remembering Horst Faas

(caveat: some images may be disturbing)

Horst Faas (28 April 1933 10 May 2012) was a German photo-journalistand two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He is best-known for his images of

the Vietnam War. Wikipedia

In this December 1965 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer

wHorst Faas, a U.S. 1st Division soldier guards Route 7 as Vietnameseomen and school children return home to the village of Xuan Dien from

Ben Cat, Vietnam. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)
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In this Jan. 16, 1966 file photo taken by Associated Press photographerHorst Faas, Lt. Col. George Eyster of Florida is placed on a stretcher

after being shot by a Viet Cong sniper at Trung Lap, South Vietnam.(Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas, File)
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South Vietnamese soldiers ride elephants across a river in the Ba Donarea, about 20 miles from the Cambodian border, during a patrol insearch of Viet Cong guerrillas in June 1964. In some conditions, the

Hannibal-like transportation is more suited to jungle warfare than moremodern vehicles. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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A South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, foundwith 47 others in a mass grave near Hue, Vietnam in April of 1969.

(Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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Flying low over the jungle, an A-1 Skyraider drops 500-pound bombs on aViet Cong position below as smoke rises from a previous pass at the

target, Dec. 26, 1964. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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In this June 1965 photo, South Vietnamese civilians, among the fewsurvivors of two days of heavy fighting, huddle together in the

aftermath of an attack by government troops to retake the post at Dong

Xoai, Vietnam. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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In this Jan. 9, 1964 photo, a South Vietnamese soldier uses the end ofa dagger to beat a farmer for allegedly supplying government troops

with inaccurate information about the movement of Viet Cong guerrillasin a village west of Saigon, Vietnam. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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U.S. door gunners in H-21 Shawnee gunships look for a suspected VietCong guerrilla who ran to a foxhole from the sampan on the Mekong Deltariver bank, Jan. 17, 1964. The U.S. provided air support during a SouthVietnamese offensive in the Mekong Delta. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst

Faas)


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Injured Vietnamese receive aid as they lie on the street after a bombexplosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, March 30, 1965.

Smoke rises from wreckage in background. At least two Americans andseveral Vietnamese were killed in the bombing. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst

Faas)


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Seriously injured by shrapnel grenades planted in a booby trapped VietCong propaganda stall, a U.S. soldier awaits evacuation from Vietnamese

jungle by ambulance helicopter being summoned by a radio operatorbehind him on Dec. 5, 1965. The soldier was attempting to tear down aViet Cong bamboo structure used to dispense propaganda when two M 79

grenades planted in one of the poles exploded in his face. (Photo by APPhoto/Horst Faas)


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Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into tree line tocover the advance of Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a VietCong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh on March 29, 1965, which is

northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border. Combined assault routedViet Cong guerrilla force. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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As South vietnamese troops pass by in the Ca Mau peninsula, a mothergrieves over her daughter, who was badly wounded by machine gun fire

from a U.S. helicopter, the week of Sept. 15, 1963. The soldiers hadlanded by helicopter in response to an attack by Viet Cong guerrillason a South Vietnamese outpost. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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Trying to avoid intense sniper fire, two American medics carry awounded paratrooper to an evacuation helicopter during the Vietnam Waron June 24, 1965. A company of paratroopers dropped directly into aViet Cong staging area in the jungle near Thoung Lang, Vietnam. Themedics are, Gerald Levy, left, of New York; and PFC Andre G. Brown of

Chicago. The wounded soldier is not identified. (Photo by APPhoto/Horst Faas)


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In this Jan. 1, 1966 photo, two South Vietnamese children gaze at anAmerican paratrooper holding an M79 grenade launcher as they cling totheir mothers who huddle against a canal bank for protection from Viet

Cong sniper fire in the Bao Trai area, 20 miles west of Saigon,Vietnam. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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A Vietnamese infantryman jumps from the protection of a rice paddy dikefor another short charge during a run and fire assault on Viet Cong

Guerrillas entrenched in an area 15 miles west of Saigon on April 4,1965. When field and surrounding brush line was finally taken,

Vietnamese had suffered a loss of 12 men dead or wounded, Straw stackfire at center was set by Guerrillas as a distraction. (Photo by AP

Photo/Horst Faas)


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A wounded Vietnamese ranger, his head heavily bandaged with only slitsfor the eyes and mouth, is ready with his weapon to answer a Viet Cong

attack during battle in Dong Xoai on June 11, 1965. (Photo by APPhoto/Horst Faas)


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A U.S. Marine listens for the heartbeat of a dying buddy who sufferedhead wounds when the company's lead platoon was hit with enemy machine

gun fire as they pushed through a rice paddy just short of thedemilitarized zone in South Vietnam Sept. 17, 1966. (Photo by APPhoto/Horst Faas)


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South Vietnamese government troops from the 2nd Battalion of the 36thInfantry sleep in a U.S. Navy troop carrier on their way back to theProvincial capital of Ca Mau in Aug. 1962 during the Vietnam War. The

soldiers were on a four-day and night operation against the Viet CongCommunists in the swamplands of the southern tip of the country. (Photoby AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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A blindfolded Viet Cong suspect and his American guard stand in theblast of a turbo jet helicopter as the prisoner waits to be removed to

an interrogation site. The suspect was taken during operations on thebanks of the Saigon River and through the ho bo woods in Vietnam onApril 18, 1966. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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Spec. 4 James D. McClafferty of Philadelphia and Pfc. Ted Talley ofMarked Tree, Ark., man a machine gun in the ruins of a house near Rach

Kien, 22 miles southwest of Saigon, Jan. 2, 1966. Their company,

operating in the delta province of Long An, came under fire when theyapproached a farmhouse at the edge of an abandoned town. (Photo by AP

Photo/Horst Faas)


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In this Nov. 27, 1965 photo, a Vietnamese litter bearer wears a facemask to keep out the smell as he passes the bodies of U.S. and

Vietnamese soldiers killed in fighting against the Viet Cong at theMichelin rubber plantation, about 45 miles northeast of Saigon. (Photo

by AP Photo/Horst Faas, File)


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A U.S. infantryman from A Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry carriesa crying child from Cam Xe village after dropping a phosphorous grenade

into a bunker cleared of civilians during an operation near theMichelin rubber plantation northwest of Saigon, August 22, 1966. Aplatoon of the 1st Infantry Division raided the village, looking for

snipers that had inflicted casualties on the platoon. GIs rushed about40 civilians out of the village before artillery bombardment ensued.



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A young South Vietnamese woman covers her mouth as she stares into amass grave where victims of a reported Viet Cong massacre were being

exhumed near Dien Bai village, east of Hue, in April 1969. The woman'shusband, father and brother had been missing since the Tet Offensive,and were feared to be among those killed by Communist forces. (Photo by

AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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A U.S. Marine wipes tears from his face as he kneels beside a bodywrapped in a poncho during a firefight near the demilitarized zone

between North and South Vietnam, Sept. 18, 1966. Other casualties lieat the side of the road as fighting continued. (Photo by AP Photo/HorstFaas)


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In this March 1965 photo, hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machinegun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnameseground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay

Ninh, Vietnam, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border. (Photo byAP Photo/Horst Faas)


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In this Jan. 1, 1966 photo, women and children crouch in a muddy canalas they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire at Bao Trai, about 20

miles west of Saigon, Vietnam. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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A U.S. crewman runs from a crashed CH-21 Shawnee troop helicopter nearthe village of Ca Mau in the southern tip of South Vietnam, Dec. 11,

1962. Two helicopters crashed without serious injuries during agovernment raid on the Viet Cong-infiltrated area. Both helicopterswere destroyed to keep them out of enemy hands. (Photo by AP

Photo/Horst Faas)


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Children ride home from school past the bodies of 15 dead Viet Congsoldiers and their commander in the village of An Ninh in Vietnam's Hau

Nghia province on May 8, 1972. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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A South Vietnamese soldier holds a cocked pistol as he questions twosuspected Viet Cong guerrillas captured in a weed-filled marsh in thesouthern delta region late in August 1962. The prisoners were searched,bound and questioned before being marched off to join other detainees.



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In this March 19, 1964 photo, one of several shot by Associated Pressphotographer Horst Faas which earned him the first of two Pulitzer

Prizes, a father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese ArmyRangers look down from their armored vehicle. The child was killed as

government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodianborder. (Photo by AP Photo/Horst Faas)


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In this 1967 photo, Associated Press photographer Horst Faas works inVietnam. Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out newstandards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world'slegendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated

Press, died May 10, 2012. He was 79. (Photo by AP Photo)

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