Prize-Winning AP Photographer Horst Faas Has Died
May 11th, 2012 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
In this March 1965 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border.
From the AP: Horst Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press, died Thursday May 10, 2012. He was 79. Faas won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes for covering the war in Vietnam. In nearly half a century with the AP, he became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists. As chief of AP’s photo operations in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Faas covered the fighting while recruiting and training new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers. The result was “Horst’s army” of young photographers, who fanned out with Faas-supplied cameras and film, and stern orders to “come back with good pictures.”
In this undated file photo, Associated Press photographer Horst Faas is shown on assignment with soldiers in South Vietnam.
Names Added to “The Wall”
May 9th, 2011 | The Wires | Posted by Alan Lessig
A Vietnam veteran, who preferred not to be identified, salutes the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington Sunday, May 8, 2011. A ceremony Sunday marked the addition of five new names to the memorial, bringing the total to 58,272. They are Army SPC Charles J. Sabatier, of Galveston, Texas; Army SPC Charles Robert Vest, of Lynchburg, Ohio; Army Sgt. Henry L. Aderholt of Birmingham, Ala.; Navy ETR2 Richard Lewis Daniels of Washougal, Wash.; Navy BT3 Peter Otto Holcomb of Grandy, Minn. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
The Other Part of That War, Continued
January 7th, 2011 | The Wires | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
The Hmong community in the U.S. is mourning the death of a revered leader, Vang Pao, today. Pao, who was 81, died Thursday night in Fresno, Calif., following a battle with pneumonia.
The general led Hmong guerrillas in their CIA-sponsored effort against communists during the Vietnam War, and after the war, helped his fellow Hmong refugees resettle here. He is seen above (C), in this file photo from a decade ago – “laying a wreath at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC, marking the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in the Kingdom of Laos as Lao veterans watch 11 May, 2000. (LUKE FRAZZA/AFP/Getty Images).
Veterans Day service for Tech Sgt. Matlovich
November 9th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
The SLDN (Servicemembers Legal Defense Network) held a memorial service in honor of Veterans Day at the gravesite of Tech Sgt. Leonard Matlovich, "one of the first to challenge the military’s exclusion of GLBT people from the armed forces," at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009.
50 Years
July 8th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
A wreath was laid at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for MAJ Dale R. Buis and MSG Chester M Ovnand, killed 50 years ago today, becoming the first U.S. casualties in the Vietnam War. Part of a military advisors group, Buis and Ovnand were killed by Vietcong guerrillas in Bien Hoa while watching a movie in the mess hall. Today they are the first names listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial under the year 1959.