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Catherine Leroy (August 27, 1944 - July 8, 2006) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications. [1]
A crying woman, Phúc's grandmother, Tao, runs in the opposite direction holding her badly burned grandchild, 3-year-old Danh, Phúc's cousin, who died of his injuries (bottom-right frame). Sections of the film shot were included in Hearts and Minds (1974), the Academy Award-winning documentary about the Vietnam War directed by Peter Davis. [24]
Diane Carlson Evans (born 1946) is a former nurse in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and the founder of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation, which established the Vietnam Women's Memorial located at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Ut, now 72, is officially retired from the Associated Press, for whom he started taking photos in Vietnam at age 16. But he still travels the world giving workshops and taking photos.
In February 1966, Drazba and another nurse, Elizabeth A. Jones, were among the seven American military personnel who died in a helicopter crash northeast of Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam, [4] [5] when the helicopter hit electrical lines and burned. [6] Drazba and Jones were the first two American women to die in the Vietnam War.
Oct. 1—A main attraction at an American Legion open house in Frederick on Saturday was a restored helicopter used during the Vietnam War. The Huey 823 completed more than 1,300 combat flight ...
A pair of well-worn baby shoes worn by an orphan evacuated from Vietnam during Operation Babylift. With the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang having fallen in March, and with Saigon under attack and being shelled, on 3 April 1975, U.S. President Gerald Ford announced that the U.S. government would begin airlifting orphans out of Saigon on a series of 30 planned flights aboard Military Airlift ...
Husband Films Wife Giving Birth to 10-Pound Baby in Front Seat of Car This is the case of a couple from Houston , that was on the way to the hospital to deliver their child but the baby decided ...