Nam Dinh, South of Hanoi, Vietnam
May 25th, 1954
This is the last photo taken by Robert Capa. With his next step, he set off a landmine.
Capa made his name for himself (In this case, literally: "the famous photographer Robert Capa" was his invention) with his photo of a Spanish Loyalist soldier at the moment of his death.
18 years later, he came within a single frame of capturing his own.
Many more fascinating photos can be found at Requiem, a multi-media presentation on the photographers killed in Indochina.
Posted by floridacracker at June 23, 2006 03:06 AM"photo" link does not work. Error 403 forbidden access
Posted by: J'hn1 at June 24, 2006 04:26 PMOK, I put a new link for that one.
Posted by: Donnah at June 24, 2006 05:15 PMDonnah, The photo's were a nice tribute.
I saw a reference to the Saigon airbase and the Tet offensive and it made me think of this story...
Donnah and I had an uncle that served as a engineer building the airbase in Siagon. He move there in the early 60's with his wife and 3 children. He retired after the Tet offensive.
Anyway, at his funeral a few years ago, I was astonished to see one half side of the church seated with Vietnameise. Come to find out, he had sponsered many families to the US after the war. And even more surprising was the number of little girls named "Nancy" ,just like me, to honor him by naming their daughters after his mother.
Is this Hilt?
Posted by: Donnah at June 24, 2006 11:41 PM