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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Noted War Photographer Dead at 67

Hugh Van Es, the Dutch photographer whose iconic picture of the fall of Saigon in 1975 became a symbol of America's failure in Vietnam has died at 67.
Van Es was one of the best of an outstanding generation of journalists who covered the war in Vietnam. His photograph of a helicopter rescuing people from an apartment building rooftop in Saigon became one of the most enduring images of the conflict.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The good-ole days.

Anonymous said...

It was actually an apartment building, not the American Embassy.

Phronesis said...

Thanks 4:03