RIP Catherine Leroy

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RIP Catherine Leroy

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One of my favorite photographers passed away. She had quite an amazing eye for combat, plus she had some brass ones.

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Catherine Leroy was a French-born photojournalist whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications.

Leroy travelled to Saigon in 1966, aged 21, to document American troops in Vietnam. A year later she became the only accredited journalist to participate in a combat parachute jump, joining the 173d Airborne Brigade in Operation Junction City. Two weeks after the battle for Hill 881, she was wounded with a Marine unit in the demilitarized zone. In 1968, during the Tet Offensive, Leroy was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. She managed to talk her way out and emerged with images of the North Vietnamese Army in action that were used for a Life magazine cover.

Her most famous photo, Corpsman In Anguish (1967) portrays a young Marine hunched over the dead body of his friend, while smoke from the battle rises into the air behind them.
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^ 'Corpsman in Anguish'

Check out some more of her work here:
http://www.pieceuniquegallery.com/leroy/cl_gallery.html
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