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Horst Faas, Vietnam War-era photographer, dies at 79 The Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with the Associated Press.
1967
Horst Faas at work in Vietnam in 1967.
AP
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AP
1965
U.S. Army helicopters pour machine-gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border.
HORST FAAS
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AP
May 11, 1965
Faas tries to get back on a U.S. helicopter after a day out with Vietnamese rangers in a flooded plain of reeds.
Uncredited
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AP
June 1965
South Vietnamese civilians, among the few survivors of two days of heavy fighting, huddle in the aftermath of an attack by government troops to retake the post at Dong Xoai, Vietnam.
Horst Faas
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AP
Dec. 18, 1971
In a shot that was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning series by Horst Faas and Michel Laurent, newly independent Bangladesh guerrillas in Dacca use bayonets to torture and kill four men suspected of collaborating with Pakistani militiamen who had been accused of murder, rape and looting during months of civil war.
HORST FAAS, MICHEL LAURENT
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AP
Aug. 1962
South Vietnamese government troops sleep in a U.S. Navy troop carrier on their way back to the provincial capital of Ca Mau.
HORST FAAS
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AP
March 1973
American prisoners of war look through barred wooden doors at the last detention camp at Ly Nam De Street in Hanoi, North Vietnam.
Horst Faas
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AP
Sept. 2, 1963
The front page of the Times of Viet Nam, published in Saigon. The story alleges a scheme by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow the government of President Diem of South Vietnam.
HORST FAAS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
July 15, 1966
U.S. Marines scatter as a CH-46 helicopter burns in the background, after it was shot down near the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam.
HORST FAAS
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AP
March 19, 1964
One of several photographs shot by Faas that earned him the first of two Pulitzer Prizes: A father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle. The child was killed as government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border.
HORST FAAS
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AP
April 1969
A South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue, Vietnam.
HORST FAAS
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AP
Jan. 9, 1964
A South Vietnamese soldier uses the end of a dagger to beat a farmer accused of supplying government troops with inaccurate information about the movement of Viet Cong guerrillas in a village west of Saigon. Government troops had raided the village, expecting to engage Viet Cong guerrillas, but found only five of the enemy.
Horst Faas
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AP
Jan. 2, 1961
Baluba warriors in the central Congo province of Kasai train for battle with homemade small arms, spears and knives. Faas, who found the warriors during their training in December, said he was not made welcome and that the Balubas were in deadly earnest.
Horst Faas
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AP
March 8, 1977
Idi Amin, Uganda's president, at a news conference at the Arab League Headquarters in Cairo in 1977.
HORST FAAS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jan. 26, 1961
People reach toward the Congolese official who distributes small rations of dried fish and palm oil at the hospital in Miabi, South Kasai, Congo in 1961.
Horst Faas
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AP
June 14, 1974
Anwar Sadat and Richard Nixon shake hands in front of the pyramids at Giza in 1974.
HORST FAAS
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AP
April 18, 1966
A blindfolded Viet Cong suspect and his American guard stand in the blast of a turbo-jet helicopter as the prisoner waits to be removed to an interrogation site. The suspect was taken during operations on the banks of the Saigon River.
Horst Faas
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AP
December 1965
A U.S. soldier guards Route 7 as Vietnamese women and children return home to the village of Xuan Dien from Ben Cat.
Horst Faas
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AP
1974
A Cambodian girl with rooster, kittens and her father's rifle at a marshaling point in Siem Reap Province in 1974. Families often followed the breadwinner into the combat zone. From "Requiem" by Horst Faas and Tim Page.
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AP
March 24, 1971
Peasants with ox carts cross the Moei river from Thailand into Burma. Nearby is the secret training camp where troops of former Burmese Prime Minister U Nu were plotting a revolution.
HORST FAAS
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AP
Jan. 1, 1966
Women and children take cover in a muddy canal from Viet Cong fire at Bao Trai, about 20 miles west of Saigon.
HORST FAAS
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AP
1963
Horst Faas, facing camera, in a jungle during the Vietnam War in 1963.
Anonymous
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 1969
A helicopter lifts a 155mm howitzer cannon to the top of a hill during a push by U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops around Khe Sanh in 1969. From "Requiem" by Horst Faas and Tim Page, published by Random House.
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AP
January 1965
Near the embattled town of Binh Gia, 40 miles east of Saigon, South Vietnamese troops, joined by U.S. advisers, rest after a cold, tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that didn't come.
Horst Faas
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AP
March 30, 1965
Injured Vietnamese receive aid after a bomb explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Saigon in 1965.
Horst Faas
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AP
April 2, 1967
A wounded U.S. soldier is given water on a battlefield in Vietnam.
Horst Faas
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AP
April 8, 1967
American infantrymen of the 5th battalion/60th mechanized infantry wade through canals and swamps on their first combined operation with Vietnamese troops in the Mekong Delta in 1967. The allied forces landed by helicopters in the marshy, canal-laced paddy country 35 miles southwest of Saigon.
Horst Faas
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AP
Nov. 3, 1997
Tim Page, left, formerly of United Press International, and Horst Faas autograph copies of their book "Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina" at the Newseum in Arlington in 1997. The book covered photographers killed on both sides of the Vietnam War.
Karin Cooper
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AP
April 3, 2008
Horst Faas in 2008, at a service at the Newseum in Washington for the interred remains of of four photojournalists killed in Vietnam in 1971.
James M. Thresher
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