1000 words behind the photo
Behind the camera: Larry Burrows Where: Close to Hill 484, near the DMZ in South Vietnam Photo Summary: Wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie reaching out to a fellow Marine near Hill 484. On the far left is 19-year-old, Navy corpsman Ron Cook and the man whose hand is touching Purdie’s shoulder is 18-year-old Private […]
Behind the camera: Huber Van Es Where: 22 Gia Long Street (now Ly Tu Trong Street), downtown Saigon where senior Central Intelligence Agency employees were housed. Photo Summary: South Vietnamese refugees fleeing communist forces Picture Taken: Tuesday, April 29, 1975 1975 saw the crumbling of the country of South Vietnam under the final North Vietnamese […]
Behind the camera: Slava ‘Sal’ Veder Where: Travis Air Force Base, in California Photo Summary: The Stirm family running to their father, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm. In the lead is 15 year old Lorrie followed by Robert Jr., Cindy, Roger and wife Loretta. Picture Taken: March 17, 1973 With the signing of the Paris […]
Behind the camera: Associated Press photographer Nick Út (Also known as Huynh Cong Út), ITN news crew including Christopher Wain and cameraman great Alan Downes. Also there was NBC cameraman Le Phuc Dinh who filmed Kim running towards the reporters. Where: On the Vietnamese highway (Route 1) that leads from Saigon towards the Cambodian border […]
Behind the camera: Eddie Adams Where: In Cholon, the Chinese section of Saigon, Vietnam Photo Summary: General Nguyen Ngoc Loan killing Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem Picture Taken: Feb 1, 1968 After Nguyen Ngoc Loan raised his sidearm and shot Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem in the head he walked over to the reporters and […]
Behind the camera: Ronald L. Haeberle Where: Sơn Mỹ village, Sơn Tịnh district of South Vietnam Photo Summary: Victims of the My Lai massacre Picture Taken: March 16, 1968 In the early 70s, a poster was created to protest the Vietnam War. It combined photos taken by U.S. Army combat photographer Ronald L. Haeberle and […]
Behind the camera: Art Greenspon Where: Ashau Valley near Hue, Vietnam Photo Summary: Soldier with hands raised directing a medical evacuation helicopter to remove wounded men of A Company, 101st Airborne Division Picture Taken: April 01, 1968 3:00 PM Art Greenspon, who was then 26-years old, had travelled to Vietnam and was promptly hired as […]
Behind the camera: Horst Faas Where: Phouc Vinh airstrip in South Vietnam Photo Summary: 173rd Airborne Brigade Battalion member Larry Wayne Chaffin on guard duty at the Phouc Vinh airstrip Picture Taken: June 18, 1965 Horst Faas was an infamous war photographer that shot extensively through the Vietnam War theater. With another author he published […]
Behind the camera: Malcome Browne Where: Phan-Dinh-Phung St. Photo Summary: Thich Quang Duc igniting himself on fire to protest South Vietnamese religious policy Picture Taken: June 11th, 1963 On June 11th, 1963 a Buddhist protest march was making its way down one of Saigon’s busiest arteries, Phan-Dinh-Phung St. The procession of around 400 Buddhist monks […]