Inspirational photography

January 07, 2016  •  Leave a Comment

Life magazine photographer Larry Burrows (far left) struggles through elephant grass and the rotor wash of an American evacuation helicopter as he helps GIs carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher from the jungle to the chopper in Mimot, Cambodia on 4 May 1970. The evacuation came during the US incursion into Cambodia.  Burrows was killed on 10 February 1971, along with the photographer who took this picture, Henri Huet, and two other photojournalists – Kent Potter of UPI and Keisaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek – when their helicopter was shot down over Laos.  

I visited Vietnam a couple of years ago and the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.  Many of the photographs on this page from The Guardian are on show in the museum.

The Guardian Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures

The War Remnants Museum


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