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		Republished for the first time in four decades, the single greatest piece of photographic reportage from the war in Vietnam, though the lens of a man who didn't make it out of the war alive. Hero tag is for him (life.com)		137
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RexTalionis

2011-10-19 04:00:42 PM

Hero tag is for all of them.

feuerwehrmann

2011-10-19 04:58:04 PM

RexTalionis: Hero tag is for all of them.

Came into say that.
/ Carry on

jso2897

2011-10-19 05:00:19 PM

Oh, sweet Jesus. Wee lads, we were - just boys. F**k War.
If nobody minds my saying so.

Jake Havechek

2011-10-19 05:00:31 PM

Vietnam, a lesson for all nations.

that we still have not learned......

SuperNinjaToad

2011-10-19 05:01:02 PM

RexTalionis: Hero tag is for ~~all~~ most of them.

Let's not forget My Lai.

Jake Havechek

2011-10-19 05:03:07 PM

I used to be obsessed with Vietnam, mostly because I believed America would never get involved again in something so utterly bad.

I was wrong.

SphericalTime

2011-10-19 05:03:29 PM

Yeah . . . that's really a moving pictorial. From what I know of Larry Burrows, a lot of his reporting was that moving, and it really changed the face of the war in the United States.

pounddawg

2011-10-19 05:05:43 PM

How do you kill women and children?

Easy...you just don't lead them as much.

Props to those who served
/All gave some, some gave all.

illegal.tender

2011-10-19 05:06:23 PM

fark war profiteers. fark them so hard.

strapp3r

2011-10-19 05:07:25 PM

uggh! was sucks

H31N0US

2011-10-19 05:07:59 PM

RexTalionis: Hero tag is for all of them.

All of whom?

Foreground My Ass

2011-10-19 05:08:27 PM

/carry on...

trappedspirit

2011-10-19 05:08:33 PM

If it weren't for war this guy would never have gotten such great shots

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body

2011-10-19 05:09:29 PM

SuperNinjaToad: RexTalionis: Hero tag is for all most of them.

Let's not forget My Lai.

In Remembrance

img4.coastalliving.com

R. I. P. My Lei

benjordan

2011-10-19 05:12:29 PM

For those interested, Robert Mason's "Chickenhawk" is by far the best account of flying 'copters in Vietnam. The conditions under which these guys operated was ridiculous.

Honkey Magoo

2011-10-19 05:13:33 PM

Thanks....... I guess.

skrame

2011-10-19 05:13:33 PM

Reportage?

BobCumbers

2011-10-19 05:13:44 PM

Can somebody tell me how to save those Life pictures? Can't just right click like I normally do.

henryhill

2011-10-19 05:13:48 PM

Good photos. Hardly the greatest.

Wolf Cola

2011-10-19 05:15:42 PM

The co-pilot, 1st Lt. James Magel, was in bad shape. When Farley and Hoilien eased off his flak vest, they exposed a major wound just below his armpit.

Help the bombardier!
I'm the bombardier, I'm all right.
Then help HIM, help HIM!

horslips

2011-10-19 05:16:01 PM

Thanks subby!

Bought the actual Life issue back in the 90's. Still a major inspiration for me!

If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough. - Robert Capa

FunkOut

2011-10-19 05:17:10 PM

BobCumbers: Can somebody tell me how to save those Life pictures? Can't just right click like I normally do.

I screencap pics that are protected.

Warzone journalists are a rare breed.

the_end_is_rear

2011-10-19 05:22:05 PM

Damn those photos are intense.

moefuggenbrew

2011-10-19 05:22:12 PM

Cool pic but WTF does republished mean? Was it unpublished or something? And houw would you unpublish something ..is it even possible?

dstanley

2011-10-19 05:22:38 PM

There's some more pictures that Burrows took in Nam here (pops) that are worth looking at.

theotherlondon

2011-10-19 05:24:43 PM

Also RIP. Ernie Pyle from WW2.

skrame

2011-10-19 05:25:24 PM

FunkOut: BobCumbers: Can somebody tell me how to save those Life pictures? Can't just right click like I normally do.

I screencap pics that are protected.

If you use Firefox, you can also use the web developer add-on to view the image information, from where you can right-click and save.

ProfessorOhki

2011-10-19 05:26:21 PM

moefuggenbrew: Cool pic but WTF does republished mean? Was it unpublished or something? And houw would you unpublish something ..is it even possible?

It was published once. Then they published it again. Not "to make public," but "to prepare and issue."

BobCumbers

2011-10-19 05:29:50 PM

FunkOut: BobCumbers: Can somebody tell me how to save those Life pictures? Can't just right click like I normally do.

I screencap pics that are protected.

Warzone journalists are a rare breed.

Thanks. Looking forward to more Life stories. I have a pretty good collection of pics, mostly from Fark.

Bondith

2011-10-19 05:30:03 PM

God help me, I was only 19.

plcow

2011-10-19 05:31:09 PM

benjordan: For those interested, Robert Mason's "Chickenhawk" is by far the best account of flying 'copters in Vietnam. The conditions under which these guys operated was ridiculous.

Matterhorn was also really really good about showing the life of a grunt, ditto on the conditions and highly recommended, and I will look up your recommendation now.

Big Jimmy Oswald

2011-10-19 05:31:35 PM

If you're in DC, you can visit the YP-13 at the Air & Space Museum annex in VA.

And you can visit Burrows re-interred remains at the Museum.

Big Jimmy Oswald

2011-10-19 05:33:13 PM

Newseum, rather.

AcneVulgaris

2011-10-19 05:34:45 PM

Jake Havechek: Vietnam, a lesson for all nations.

that we still have not learned......

If we don't thin the herd with war, pestilence and famine are waiting in the wings.

100 Watt Walrus

2011-10-19 05:34:48 PM

Deslide-ified (new window)

AlwaysRightBoy

2011-10-19 05:41:55 PM

Reminds me of the Eric Burdon & The Animals song 'Sky Pilot'

/brings back the memories

horslips

2011-10-19 05:42:29 PM

100 Watt Walrus: Deslide-ified (new window)

THANK YOU!

84Charlie

2011-10-19 05:43:43 PM

plcow: benjordan: For those interested, Robert Mason's "Chickenhawk" is by far the best account of flying 'copters in Vietnam. The conditions under which these guys operated was ridiculous.

Matterhorn was also really really good about showing the life of a grunt, ditto on the conditions and highly recommended, and I will look up your recommendation now.

I prefer the book "Firebirds" by Chuck Carlock. His story about Frank Anton's shoot down and capture is pretty riveting. Frank Anton also wrote a book called "Why Didn't You Get Me Out" about his experiences in the helicopters and time as a POW.

schief2

2011-10-19 05:46:14 PM

Wow, never expected to see a Larry Burrows appreciation thread on Fark. His color stuff was amazing, arguably as good or better than this essay. Can't find a slideshow of just his work, but see here and note how many of the photos are his.

You've probably all seen these famous photos from D-Day:

img651.imageshack.us

See how they're kind of blurred and grainy? They're not like that on purpose, in his nervousness and excitement the lab tech f'ed up the film processing and nearly ruined the emulsion. There's an apocryphal story that that farkup lab tech was the same Larry Burrows.

Sticky Hands

2011-10-19 05:47:06 PM

AcneVulgaris: If we don't thin the herd with war, pestilence and famine are waiting in the wings.

They are waiting in the wings because they are a couple of pussies. Mostly they can't do shiat unless war softens things up a bunch first.

GrumpusMaximus

2011-10-19 05:55:24 PM

Anybody know what happened to LCpl Owens and the gunner (Pvt. Hoilier) from this story? Did they make it out of the war alive?

My dad was Army infantry during the war and used to say that he stopped complaining how tough things were for him when he realized that the choppers and their crews were basically slow moving skeet. "Choppers can't duck, son."

SecretMuslim

2011-10-19 05:55:38 PM

I CALLED it on Yankee-Papa 13.

farscape

2011-10-19 06:03:42 PM

Life magazine can die in a fire. When they airbrushed the POW's middle fingers out they stopped reporting the news.

Doubletwist-

2011-10-19 06:06:27 PM

And if it looks like we were scared to death
Like a couple of kids just trying to save each other
You should have seen it in color

A picture's worth a thousand words
But you can't see what those shades of gray keep covered
You should have seen it in color

From "In Color" by Jamey Johnson (new window)

Yogimus

2011-10-19 06:11:22 PM

They are still young.

wiredroach

2011-10-19 06:13:18 PM

I highly recommend Requiem, an amazing book about the photojournalists who didn't make it back from southeast Asia.

okaykleek

2011-10-19 06:31:38 PM

Rafterman

Suede head

2011-10-19 06:43:28 PM

RexTalionis: Hero tag is for all of them.

Sure. Even the murderers, torturers and rapists.

YouPeopleAreCrazy

2011-10-19 06:46:06 PM

SuperNinjaToad: Let's not forget My Lai.

That or similar happens with every military, in every conflict.
Every. Single. Time.

/some worse than others
//some far, far worse

ACEllis

2011-10-19 06:58:07 PM

The last one in the serious bothered me.

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