This and other images from South Vietnam earned Associated Press photographer Horst Faas the Pulitzer Prize in 1965. The caption, as it appeared in the Milwaukee Sentinel on March 20:
The body of a child killed in battle Thursday in South Vietnam was held by his father as rangers of the Vietnamese army looked down from a tank. The child was killed as government forces pursued Vietcong guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border. The Vietnamese forces used bombers and armored personnel carriers against the guerrilla forces in the battle.
-- AP Wirephoto by Horst Faas via cable from Saigon
* Faas' photos for Associated Press (from AP Images): @
* Obituary (from AP; May 10, 2012): @
* "Horst Faas: A Last Hurrah" (Richard Pyle for The New York Times): @
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