Saturday February 11, 2023

On This Day: 4 photojournalists die in Vietnam War helicopter crash

On February 10, 1971, news photographers (l-r) Keisaburo Shimamoto, Newsweek Henri Huet, AP Larry Burrows LIFE Magazine and Kent Potter, UPI, board a Vietnamese Huey helicopter in Lang Vei on the Vietnam-Laos border to cover Lam Son 719, a South Vietnamese invasion of Laos intended to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail. The chopper was shot down a few minutes later and exploded. It was the worst single loss of news media members during the Vietnam War.

(via On This Day, Feb. 10: 4 photojournalists die in Vietnam War helicopter crash - UPI.com)