Viet Cong Guerrilla, captured by Vietnamese Rangers, crawls from a jungle entrenchment during a government assault 30 miles northwest of Saigon.

Viet Cong Guerrilla, captured by Vietnamese Rangers, crawls from a jungle entrenchment during a government assault 30 miles northwest of Saigon.

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Horst Faas

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German, 1933–2012

Viet Cong Guerrilla, captured by Vietnamese Rangers, crawls from a jungle entrenchment during a government assault 30 miles northwest of Saigon.

Horst Faas/The Associated Press/News Photography


January 1964
Gelatin silver print
28 x 35.3 cm.
Gift of Horst Faas
2002.0488.0015
Inscriptions (on printed label on page): Viet Cong Guerrilla, captured by
Vietnamese Rangers, crawls from a jungle entrenchment during a
government assault 30 miles northwest of Saigon. The Rangers,
accompanied by U.S. advisors, were trapped for six hours after they
has overrun the guerrilla foxholes but escaped into the jungle, losing
four killed and 17 wounded, including a U.S. sergeant. Associated
Press photographer Horst Faas accompanied the Rangers on the assault
and made this picture, January 1964
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