Larry Burrows

<p><b>Larry Burrows</b>, <i>Reaching Out: wounded US marine Jeremiah Purdie (centre) is led past stricken comrades after a fierce firefight for control of Hill 484 in South Vietnam</i>, 1966.</p>
<p><b>Larry Burrows</b>, <i>Troops from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines</i>, 1966.</p>
<p><b>Larry Burrows</b>, <i>Four Marines recover the body of a fifth as their company comes under fire near Hill 484</i>, 1966. NOTE: At right is the French-born photojournalist Catherine Leroy (1945 – 2006); she was cropped out of the version of this photo that originally ran in LIFE.</p>
<p><b>Larry Burrows</b>, <i>Chinook helicopters taking off after deploying ground troops along area known as "Route 9" for an offensive patrol, Operation Pegasus, Vietnam</i>, 1968.</p>
<p><b>Larry Burrows</b>, <i>U.S. Marine in Vietnam</i>, 1966.</p>
<p><b>Larry Burrows</b>, <i>A bayonet-wielding South Vietnamese paratrooper threatens a captured Việt Cộng suspect during an interrogation</i>, 1962.</p>
<p><b>Larry Burrows</b>, <i>Marine Helicopter Operations in Vietnam</i>, 1965.</p>
<p><b>Larry Burrows</b>, from the photo essay </i>,One ride with Yankee Papa 13</i>, LIFE, April 16, 1965.</p>
<p><b>Larry Burrows</b>, from the photo essay </i>,One ride with Yankee Papa 13</i>, LIFE, April 16, 1965.</p>
<p><b>Larry Burrows</b>, <i>An American soldier contemplates a woman breastfeeds her baby</i>.</p>
<p><b>Larry Burrows</b>, <i>A dazed, wounded American Marine gets bandaged during Operation Prairie near the DMZ during the Vietnam War</i>, 1966.</p>
English
1926 , d. 1971

Started out printing photos in Life's London bureau, covered Vietnam War, died when a helicopter he and other photojournalists were riding in was shot down.


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