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War Correspondents

A young war photographer: Lỗ Mạnh Hùng, only 12-year-old in 1968.
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Benno Wundshammer (1913/1986) was a photo journalist and German historian.
Here Benno Wundshammer (right), who served in the Goebbels company of propaganda (Propagandakompanie) and survive the war, poses next to the Luftwaffe officers and the Hanomag Sd.Kfz.250/3 armored car in the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Catherine Leroy (born Aug 27, 1944) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer. She was one of only two female photographers in Vietnam during the war. Leroy dedicated most of her time to capturing images of men in combat, living and patrolling with U.S. Marines for the three years she spent as a freelance photographer there. She was accredited by The Associated Press and United Press International and quickly earned a reputation for her powerful images.

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C. Leroy with two other American soldiers during the Vietnam War.

Leroy also was an accomplished parachutist and made several jumps with the Marines, including one with the 173rd Airborne Brigade during Operation Junction City, the only major parachute assault of the war.
The North Vietnamese forces held her prisoner during the Têt Offensive and she was seriously wounded in 1968. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Leroy continued to photograph world conflicts, including civil war in Lebanon and the siege of West Beirut by Israel in 1982.

Leroy's moving image of U.S. Marine Vernon Wike grieving over his fallen comrade on Battle of Hill 881, is one of her most famous.

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Navy Corpsman Vernon Wike attends a wounded marine Willam Roldan during the battle for Hill 881N in April 1967.
Wike is seen listening for the heart beat, and cries out in frustration, when he realizes that his buddy has died.


C. Leroy died of cancer on July 8, 2006 at age 61.
 
Looking up Robert Capa I found this:

The Falling Soldier

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Possibly the most famous of war photographs, this image is all but synonymous with the name of its maker, Robert Capa, who was proclaimed in 1938, at the age of twenty-five, "the greatest war photographer in the world" in the British magazine "Picture Post." Taken at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and showing the moment of a bullet's impact on a loyalist soldier, this photograph has become an emblem of the medium's unrivaled capacity to depict sudden death. It is also prototypical of the style of photojournalism that came to define the work of Capa and his colleagues at the picture press agency Magnum Photos in the late 1940s.


 
Very famous photo,
since the 70's very controversial as well, with many now thinking it was staged. Still a very powerful image
 
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