Hugh Van Es | 1941-2009
This photo by Van Es shows a wounded U.S. paratrooper grimacing in pain while waiting for medical evacuation in the A Shau Valley near the South Vietnamese-Laotian border. (Hugh Van Es / Associated Press)
This photo by Van Es shows South Vietnamese women and children waiting in the hot midday sun after they were gathered up by U.S. Marines for relocation to a nearby refugee center. (Hugh Van Es / Associated Press)
Van Es with U.S. soldiers near Quan Loi, Vietnam. He worked as a photographer for the Associated Press in Saigon from 1969 to 1972 and then covered the last three years of the war from 1972 to 1975 for United Press International. (Spaarnestad / AFP/Getty Images)
Van Es at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong. (Mike Clarke / AFP/Getty Images)