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1960-1969
Bernard Kolenberg
Huynh Thanh My
Klaus Frings
Oliver Noonan Jr.
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Bernard
Kolenberg (1927-1965)
Bernard Kolenberg, a photographer for the Times-Union
of Albany, N.Y., who volunteered for AP service in Vietnam,
was killed Oct. 2, 1965, when the jet bomber he was
in collided with another bomber over central Vietnam.
He was 38 and the first journalist to be killed in combat
in Vietnam. Kolenberg had covered the war in Vietnam
for five weeks in 1964, producing a series of photographs
for the Times-Union, where he had worked for 20 years.
"He was Bernie to everyone," the Times-Union
said in a tribute published the day Kolenberg was killed,
"including the last three New York governors."
Kolenberg was noted for his courage taking difficult
photos and his tenderness photographing children.
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Huynh
Thanh My (1937-1965)
An encounter in a muddy rice field with Horst Faas during
the Vietnam War led Huynh Thanh My to join AP in 1963.
My was working as a freelancer for CBS covering a battle
in the Mekong Delta when Faas, AP Saigon’s photo
chief, offered him a job. My already was an established
cameraman and actor in South Vietnam, and under Faas'
training became one of AP's most capable photographers,
renowned for his fearlessness. On Oct. 10, 1965, the 28-year-old
was covering another Delta battle when he was wounded
in the chest and arm. He was killed by the enemy while
awaiting evacuation. After My’s death, Faas hired
his teenage brother, Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut,
who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his
picture of young Kim Phuc, screaming as she fled a napalm
attack. “Everything I have accomplished, I owe to
him. My brother taught me the value of skills, honor and
determination,” Nick Ut said. “He taught me
to control fear of gunfire and death which is so necessary
for both soldiers and photographers. I miss him very much,
and I hope I would have made him proud.”
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Klaus
Frings (1935-1968)
Photographer Klaus Frings died April 17, 1968, two days
after being struck in the head by a rock while taking
pictures of a clash between police and some 2,000 demonstrators
outside the Munich printing plant of the Bild-Zeitung.
He was 32. Frings kept shooting when the demonstration
reached a heated stage, despite threats from the students,
who said the pictures might be used against them. Holding
his camera high overhead, Frings took what turned out
to be his last picture. Within seconds, a fist-size rock
fatally struck him in the head. Frings, a native of Muenster,
Germany, had worked for the AP for four years, the last
two as a staffer based in Munich.
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Oliver
Noonan Jr. (1939-1969)
Oliver Noonan was aboard an Army helicopter shot down
southwest of Danang, Vietnam, on Aug. 19, 1969, killing
him, an infantry battalion commander and six other soldiers.
He was 29. That day, he’d carried a large metal
camera case, joking to a reporter-colleague, “If
they shot at the helicopter, I’ll hide behind it.”
Noonan, the son of a Boston news photographer, had taken
leave from the Boston Globe to cover the war. Joining
AP in Saigon, he spent most of his time covering the troops.
“Every step is earned here,” he wrote home.
“Nothing is free.” Noonan’s byline also
appeared on AP stories, including one on the departure
of an Army combat unit that began America’s withdrawal
from Vietnam.
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