In pictures: Photography by Horst Faas (1933-2012)
Horst Faas was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photojournalist
In this March 1965 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, hovering U.S. 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, Vietnam, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border. Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world's legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press, died Thursday May 10, 2012. He was 79.Horst Faas/AP/The Associated Press
In this March 19, 1964 file photo, one of several shot by Associated Press photographer 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 armored vehicle. The child was killed as government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border.Horst Faas/AP/The Associated Press
In this April 2, 1967 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, a dead U.S. soldier lays on the battlefield with a sheet over him in Vietnam.Horst Faas/AP/The Associated Press
In this July 15, 1966 file photo taken by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, U.S. Marines scatter as a CH-46 helicopter burns, background, after it was shot down near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Vietnam.Horst Faas/AP/The Associated Press
In this April 1969 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, a South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue, Vietnam.Horst Faas/AP/The Associated Press
In this Nov. 27, 1965 file photo taken by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, a Vietnamese litter bearer wears a face mask to keep out the smell as he passes the bodies of U.S. and Vietnamese soildiers killed in fighting against the Viet Cong at the Michelin rubber plantation, about 45 miles northeast of Saigon.Horst Faas/AP/The Associated Press
In this April 2, 1967 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, wounded U.S. soldiers are treated on a battle field in Vietnam.Horst Faas/AP/The Associated Press
In this Jan. 1, 1966 file photo taken by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, 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, Vietnam.Horst Faas/AP/The Associated Press
In this October 1974 file photo taken by Associated Press photographer, Muhammad Ali works out before his bout against George Foreman in Zaire.Horst Faas/AP/The Associated Press
In this June 14, 1974 file photo taken by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, Presidents Anwar Sadat and Richard Nixon shake hands for photographers as they pose in front of the pyramids at Giza, near Cairo.Horst Faas/AP/The Associated Press
In this January 1965 file photo taken by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, the sun breaks through dense jungle foliage around the embattled town of Binh Gia, 40 miles east of Saigon, as South Vietnamese troops, joined by U.S. advisers, rest after a cold, damp and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that didn't come.Horst Faas/AP/The Associated Press