Perpignan, France — Horst Faas, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, sits in front of his images at the International Festival of Photojournalism in September 2008.

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Vietnam — Associated Press photographer Horst Faas is shown on assignment with soldiers in South Vietnam.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Associated Press

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Tay Ninh, Vietnam — Faas captures hovering U.S. Army helicopters pouring machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp near the Cambodian border in March 1965.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: HORST FAAS / Associated Press

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Bao Trai, Vietnam — In a Faas photo, women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire on Jan. 1, 1966.

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Vietnam — U.S. Marines scatter as a CH-46 helicopter burns, background, after it was shot down near the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam on July 15, 1966.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: HORST FAAS / AP

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Binh Gia, Vietnam — 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 in January 1965.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Horst Faas / AP

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Vietnam — On Nov. 27, 1965, a Vietnamese litter bearer wears a face mask to keep out the smell as he passes the bodies of U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers killed in fighting against the Viet Cong at the Michelin rubber plantation about 45 miles northeast of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Horst Faas / Associated Press

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Saigon, Vietnam — Injured Vietnamese receive aid as they lie on the street after a bomb explosion outside the U.S. Embassy on March 30, 1965.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Horst Faas / Associated Press

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Vietnam — In one of several photos that earned Faas 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 on March 19, 1964.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: HORST FAAS / Associated Press

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Vietnam — A U.S. soldier guards Route 7 as Vietnamese women and schoolchildren return home to the village of Xuan Dien from Ben Cat in December 1965.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Horst Faas / Associated Press

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Dong Xoai, Vietnam — South Vietnamese civilians, among the few survivors of two days of heavy fighting, huddle together in the aftermath of an attack by government troops in June 1965.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Horst Faas / Associated Press

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Hanoi, Vietnam — U.S. prisoners of war look through barred wooden doors at the last detention camp in March 1973.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Horst Faas / Associated Press

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Hue, Vietnam — A South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave in April 1969.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: HORST FAAS / Associated Press

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Vietnam — In this Jan. 9, 1964, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, a South Vietnamese soldier uses the end of a dagger to beat a farmer for allegedly supplying government troops with inaccurate information about the movement of Viet Cong guerrillas.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Horst Faas / Associated Press

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Vietnam — A wounded U.S. soldier is given water on a battlefield on April 2, 1967.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Horst Faas / Associated Press

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Vietnam — A dead U.S. soldier is covered with a sheet on the battlefield in April 1967.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Horst Faas / Associated Press

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Dacca, Bangladesh — Part of a Pulitzer prize-winning series by Faas and Michel Laurent, a guerrilla leader beats a victim on Dec. 18, 1971, during the torture and execution of four men suspected of collaborating with Pakistani militiamen accused of murder, rape and looting during months of civil war.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: HORST FAAS, MICHEL LAURENT / Associated Press

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Dacca, Bangladesh — Another photo in the award-winning series captures newly independent Bangladesh guerrillas using bayonets to torture and kill the four suspects.

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