A South Vietnamese soldier escorts a captured man and boy suspected of being Viet Cong , having just flushed them out of a paddy field where they were hiding, 1962. Photograph: Larry Burrows/Time & Life pictures. (theGuardian)
Larry Burrows made a photograph that, for generations, has served as the most indelible, searing illustration of the horrors inherent in that long, divisive war - and, by implication, in all wars. Ben Cosgrove.
It's not easy to photograph a man dying in the arms of a fellow countryman... Was I simply capitalizing on the other men's grief? I concluded that what I was doing would penetrate the hearts of those at home who are simply too indifferent. Larry Burrows.
Burrows died with fellow photojournalists Henri Huet (Associated Press), Kent Potter (United Press International) and Keisaburo Shimamoto (freelancer with Newsweek), when their helicopter was shot down over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos as the group covered Operation Lam Son 719. (Wiki)
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