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 HENRI HUET Vietnam, 1966 (AP) |
 KYOICHI SAWADA - Tan Binh, Vietnam, 1966 The body of a Viet Cong soldier is dragged behind an armored vehicle en route to a burial site after fierce fighting on February 24, 1966.(UPI) Shortly after I opened the UPI picture bureau in Saigon in March of 1965, Sawada, who had been confined to a darkroom for the wire service in Tokyo showed up. He had taken his vacation time and paid his own way to Vietnam. Even though he was the same age of most young photographers covering the war he had a maturity and sense of artistic commitment that made him seem older and wiser. Though most of us shot with Nikons, Sawada was a Leica man, and he used it like the precision instrument it is. In 1965, he won both the Pulitzer Prize and the World Press Photo grand award. In 1972, after his death in Cambodia, he received the Robert Capa Gold Medal. (Dirck Halstead) |
 HENRI HUET Chu Lai, Vietnam, 1965 U.S. Marine Corps chaplain John Monamara of Boston administers the last rites to war correspondent Dickey Chapelle. (AP) Whiskey-voiced and brave, Dickey Chapelle spent most of her adult life in a man's world. She knew how to parachute out of a plane as well as how to fly one, had adventures in three wars, and was remembered by nearly everyone she ever met. In 1962, she won the Overseas Press Club's George Polk Award for the best reporting in any medium, requiring exceptional courage and enterprise abroad. Her proudest achievement was the Distinguished Service Award, presented by the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association. At her memorial service, a representative of the Women's National Press Club said Chapelle was "the kind of reporter all women in journalism openly or secretly aspire to be. She was always where the action was." |
 HENRI HUET Vietnam, 1966 -Wearing a bloody bandage over the left side of his face, medic Thomas Cole of Richmond, Va., cradles the head of Staff Sgt. Harrison C.D. Pell from Hazelton, Pa., of the First Cavalry Divison. (AP) LIFE Magazine ran Henri's pictures as a twelve page spread. I honestly feel that it is the most perfect coverage I have ever seen. (Dirck Halstead) |
 HENRI HUET South of the DMZ, Vietnam, 1966 Weary after a third night of fighting against North Vietnamese troops, U.S. Marines crawl from foxholes. The helicopter at left was shot down when it came in to resupply the unit. (AP) For most of the first year following the buildup of American troops in Vietnam, the war was relatively cost-free. It was, to the military, a chance to try out new weapons and tactics. It provided a means for career officers to get their "ticket punched." However, in early 1966, main-force North Vietnamese entered the war. It was with this battle, the tides began to turn. The United States began to realize that the undeclared war was about to become an ordeal. With this photograph we start a series about this battle by Henri Huet ( Dirck Halstead ) |
 HENRI HUET An Thi, Vietnam, 1966 In January 1966, Associated Press correspondent Bob Poos and photographer Henri Huet accompanied the U.S. First Cavalry Division into action on the central coast of South Vietnam. This is an extract from their account.(AP) An Thi, Vietnam, January 30 (AP) - A drenching rain fell throughout Friday night and in the predawn hours of Saturday, then slacked off about dawn. The light of dawn exposed a picture of bloody battle-the dead and wounded in the muddied trench, the empty cartridge clips and ration boxes scattered about, the shell holes. In the village a rooster crowed, and the hens pecked in the mud. A pig rooted through empty C-ration cans. It was a dawn that did not come peacefully. ( Requiem - From the newswire of The Associated Press, January 30, 1996) |
 HUYNH THANH MY (alias) HUYNH CONG LA Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 1965 (AP) Born: June 1, 1937 in Long An, Vietnam Died: October 10, 1965 near Can Tho, Vietnam Although he was only 5'3 and weighed just 110 lbs., Huynh Thanh My was one of the toughest photographers of the Vietnam War. He had a Bachelor of Arts Degree and for several years he carried heavy network news equipment around the battlefield for CBS, until he was lured to AP in 1963 to work as a staff photographer. In May, 1965, he was wounded by machine gun fire but returned to the front lines as soon as he was released from the hospital. While covering a fight between the Viet Cong and SVN Rangers in the Mekong Delta later that year, Huynh Thanh My was wounded in the chest and arm. As he waited to be evacuated by helicopter, the enemy overran the makeshift aid station and killed the wounded. Nearly the entire Saigon Press Corps marched in Huynh Thanh My's funeral procession to the Mac Dinh Chi cemetary. Huynh left behind his 19-year-old widow and seven-month-old daughter. His younger brother, Huynh Cong Ut was hired by the AP in 1965 and covered the rest of the war, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Better known as Nick Ut, he now lives in Los Angeles. (Requiem) |
 KYOICHI SAWADA Bong Son, Vietnam, 1966 An injured North Vietnamese soldier is led from his bunker by soldiers of the U.S. First Cavalry Division. This soldier held up the U.S. advance for one hour with machine gun fire from his position. (UPI) |
 HUYNH THANH MY Tan Dinh Island, Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 1965 Vietnamese battalion commander Captain Thach Quyen interrogates a captured Viet Cong suspect. (AP) Once the American buildup had gotten underway imid-1965, most western photographers turned their attention to the U.S. troops. This left most of the day-to-day ARVN operations to Vietnamese photographers working for the news services. Largely unsung, their work required as much, if not more, bravery than their higher-paid "round eye" colleagues. They also died in greater numbers, and contributed some of the best photographs of the war. (Dirck Halstead) |
 HENRI HUET Vietnam, 1966 (AP) |
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