Henri Huet and the Vietnam war photographers

A US medic looks up with his one uncovered eye as he continues to treat a wounded comrade. U.S. 1st Cavalry Division medic Thomas Cole, from Richmond, Va., looks up with his one uncovered eye as he continues to treat wounded Staff Sgt. Harrison Pell during a January 1966 firefight in the Central Highlands between U.S. troops and a combined North Vietnam- ese and Viet Cong force. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

A tear starts to roll down the cheek of a Vietnamese girl, one of about 20 women and children left in a riverbank cave when the men in their group fled a US patrol. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

A US military helicopter stirs up dust and straw as it delivers troops. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

US soldiers relax on the long boat trip back to their base camp after a day trudging through the coconut groves of Kien Hoa province. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

A US soldier guides helicopters into a swampy area on the northern edge of the Mekong Delta. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

South Vietnamese soldiers inspect destruction in what was then Saigon's Cholon section, after the Mini-Tet Offensive of May 1968. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

American infantrymen crowd into a bomb crater and seek out snipers firing at them during a battle at Phuoc Vinh. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

Captured guerrillas, blindfolded and hands tied behind their backs, are guarded by American GIs during the battle of An Thi, in south Vietnam. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

Chaplain John McNamara of Boston makes the sign of the cross as he administers the last rites to photographer Dickey Chapelle. Chapelle was covering a US Marine unit on a combat operation near Chu Lai for the National Observer when she was seriously wounded, along with four Marines, by an exploding mine. She died in a helicopter en route to a hospital. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

US Paratroopers hold their automatic weapons above water as they cross a river in the rain during a search enemy positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, south Vietnam. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

Photographer Larry Burrows, far left, struggles through elephant grass and the rotorwash of a helicopter as he helps GIs to carry a stretcher in Mimot, Cambodia. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

The body of an American paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is raised up to an evacuation helicopter. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

US troops take cover in the hills near An Thi, along the central coast of south Vietnam, after day-long fighting in Operation Masher, 29 January 1966. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

Under the gaze of US soldiers, a woman holds her hands to her forehead in a village near Bong Son. Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

Henri Huet aboard a warship in the South China Sea, off the coast of Vietnam. Photograph: Michael Putzel/AP