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Horst Faas, legendary combat photographer, dies
An American sergeant of the 1st infantry division winces in pain as two Vietnamese soldiers drag him to an evacuation helicopter. He was wounded by grenade-shrapnel in both legs and chest when a booby-trapped grenade exploded in front of him as he searched a house on an operation north of the new 1st Div. Headquarters at Phul Loi, 17 miles north of Saigon on Nov. 12, 1965.Horst Faas / AP
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AP photographer Horst Faas, facing camera, is pictured in a jungle during the Vietnam War in 1963.Associated Press
Associated Press reports: Prize-winning former Associated Press combat photographer Horst Faas has died at age 79.
His daughter, Clare Faas, says he died Thursday afternoon.
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.
An American sergeant of the 1st infantry division winces in pain as two Vietnamese soldiers drag him to an evacuation helicopter. He was wounded by grenade-shrapnel in both legs and chest when a booby-trapped grenade exploded in front of him as he searched a house on an operation north of the new 1st Div. Headquarters at Phul Loi, 17 miles north of Saigon on Nov. 12, 1965.Horst Faas / AP
