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Women and children crouch in a muddy canal

as they take cover from intense Vietcong fire

on 1 January 1966.

 

Paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (background)

escorted the civilians through a series of firefights

during the US assault on a Vietcong stronghold at Bao Trai,

about 20 miles west of Saigon

 

Photograph: Horst Faas

AP

 

Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures

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Wednesday 22 April 2015    11.13 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/22/
vietnam-the-real-war-a-photographic-history-by-the-associated-press-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Horst Faas’s Pulitzer Prize-winning portfolio:

In March 1964,

a farmer helplessly holds the body of his dead child

as South Vietnamese troops look on.

 

Photograph: Horst Faas

Associated Press

 

Images of the Vietnam War That Defined an Era

NYT

September 14, 2013

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/
arts/design/images-of-the-vietnam-war-that-defined-an-era.html

 

 

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A distraught father holds the body of his child

as South Vietnamese rangers look down

from their armoured vehicle on 19 March 1964.

 

The child was killed

as government forces pursued guerrillas

into a village near the Cambodian border.

 

From the portfolio by AP photographer Horst Faas

that received the 1965 Pulitzer prize for photography

 

Photograph: Horst Faas/AP

 

Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures

G

Wednesday 22 April 2015    11.13 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/22/vietnam-
the-real-war-a-photographic-history-by-the-associated-press-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AP photographer Horst Faas,

with his cameras around his neck,

accompanies US troops in war zone C

 

Photograph: AP

 

Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures

G

Wednesday 22 April 2015    11.13 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/22/vietnam-
the-real-war-a-photographic-history-by-the-associated-press-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horst Faas    Germany    1933-2012

 

Photojournalist's work

in uncovering

the horrors of Vietnam war

helped turn mainstream opinion

against US offensive

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/may/11/
vietnam-war-photographer-horst-faas

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/
opinion/horst-faas-photography-vietnam-war.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/
opinion/the-man-who-shot-vietnam.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/14/
152670241/shooting-vietnam-remembering-horst-faas

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/may/11/
vietnam-war-photographer-horst-faas

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/may/11/
photographer-horst-faas-in-pictures

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2012/05/11/
152504928/if-you-dont-know-the-name-horst-faas-look-at-this

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=1110671 - May 31, 1999

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/1997/11/05/
1109907/photojournalists-horst-faas-and-tim-page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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