Legendary AP war photographer Horst Faas, known for his dramatic pictures of people embroiled in the violence of the Vietnam War, has died. His work in Vietnam, where he was based for a decade, earned him his first Pulitzer Prize in 1965. He won a second Pulitzer in 1972 for pictures of torture and executions in Bangladesh.
In this August 1962 photo, South Vietnamese government troops from the 2nd Battalion of the 36th Infantry sleep in a US Navy troop carrier on their way back to the Provincial capital of Ca Mau
In this March 19, 1964 photo, one of several shot by Horst Faas which earned him the first of two Pulitzer Prizes, a father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armoured vehicle. The child was killed as government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border.
in this January 9, 1964 photo - one of several that earned Horst Faas his first Pulitzer Prize - a South Vietnamese soldier uses the end of a dagger to beat a farmer for allegedly supplying government troops with inaccurate information about the movement of Viet Cong guerrillas in a village west of Saigon
January 1965: The sun breaks through dense jungle foliage around the embattled town of Binh Gia as South Vietnamese troops, joined by US advisers, rest after a cold, damp and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that didn't come
March 1965: Hovering US 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, near the Cambodian border
March 30, 1965: Injured Vietnamese people receive aid as they lie on the street after a bomb explosion outside the US Embassy in Saigon
May 11, 1965: Photographer Horst Faas tries to get back on a US helicopter after a day out with Vietnamese rangers in a flooded plain of reeds
June 1965: South Vietnamese civilians, among the few survivors of two days of heavy fighting, huddle together in the aftermath of an attack by government troops to retake the post at Dong Xoai, Vietnam
November 27, 1965: A Vietnamese litter bearer wears a face mask to keep out the smell as he passes the bodies of US and Vietnamese soldiers killed in fighting against the Viet Cong at the Michelin rubber plantation, about 45 miles northeast of Saigon
December 1965: A US 1st Division soldier guards Route 7 as Vietnamese women and school children return home to the village of Xuan Dien from Ben Cat
January 1966: Two South Vietnamese children gaze at an American paratrooper holding an M79 grenade launcher as they cling to their mothers who huddle against a canal bank for protection from Viet Cong sniper fire in the Bao Trai area, 20 miles west of Saigon
In this January 1966 photo, women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire at Bao Trai, about 20 miles west of Saigon
January 16, 1966: Lt Col George Eyster of Florida is placed on a stretcher after being shot by a Viet Cong sniper at Trung Lap, South Vietnam
July 15, 1966: US Marines scatter as a CH-46 helicopter burns, background, after it was shot down near the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between North and South Vietnam
Wounded US soldiers are treated on a battle field in Vietnam on April 2, 1967
April 2, 1967: A wounded US soldier is given water on a battlefield in Vietnam
April 2, 1967: A dead US soldier lays on the battlefield with a sheet over him in Vietnam
In this April 1969 photo, a South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue, Vietnam
In this March 1973 photo, American prisoners of war look through barred wooden doors at the last detention camp at Ly Nam De Street in Hanoi, North Vietnam
In this December 18, 1971 photo shot by AP photographers Horst Faas and Michel Laurent, part of a Pulitzer prize winning series, newly independent Bangladesh guerrillas in Dacca use bayonets to torture and kill four men suspected of collaborating with Pakistani militiamen who had been accused of murder, rape and looting during months of civil war
18 December 1971: A guerilla leader in Dacca, Bangladesh, beats a victim during the torture and execution of four men suspected of collaborating with Pakistani militiamen accused of murder, rape and looting during months of civil war
Horst Faas attends a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Couvent des Minimes in Perpignan on September 5, 2008
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