Combat zone: US Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into a tree line to cover an advance by South Vietnamese troops in this March 1965 photo by Horst Faas
'He Brought Forth Some Of The Most Searing Images Of The 20th Century': Death Of The Photographer Whose Pictures Defined The Vietnam War -- Daily Mail
Horst Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who set new standards for covering war with a camera, has died aged 79.
The German, who joined US-based news agency The Associated Press (AP) in 1956, photographed wars, revolutions and Olympic Games.
But he was best known for covering Vietnam, where he was severely wounded in 1967 and won four major photo awards including the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes.
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