In January 1966,Associated Press war photographer Henri Huet was on assignment in An Thi, in Vietnam, when he came across a young, wounded Army medic named Thomas Cole in a muddy trench.

For Henri Huet, the Virgin Mary medallion was his one constant link to Cecile, the woman he loved. It was a love token worn through the blood-drenched rice paddies and jungles of the Vietnam War.

When French photographer Henri Huet died at age 43 in a helicopter crash over Laos in 1971, he left behind a collection of images showing not only the horrors of the Vietnam War but also the ...

A few years ago, Clay Mountcastle’s father, Jack, a Vietnam veteran, showed him a copy of a 1966 issue of Life Magazine — a once wildly popular weekly publication — ...

Henri Huet, an AP photojournalist who lost his life in 1971, when the military helicopter he was riding in was gunned down over southern Laos, ...

PARIS – A U.S. Army medic peers through dirty bandages on his own head while caring for a wounded comrade. A helicopter winches up the lifeless body of an American soldier, silhouetted against a ...

Henri Huet, one of the most admired photojournalists of the Vietnam War, is being remembered in an exhibit of his work in France. “Henri Huet: Vietnam 1965-1971” opened last week and will remain on ...

For Henri Huet, the Virgin Mary medallion was his one constant link to Cecile, the woman he loved. The celebrated Associated Press photographer carried it in his pocket or hung it around his neck.

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PARIS — It was a love token worn through the blood-drenched rice paddies and jungles of the Vietnam War. For Henri Huet, the Virgin Mary medallion was his one constant link to Cecile, the woman ...

PARIS – It was a love token worn through the blood-drenched rice paddies and jungles of the Vietnam War. For Henri Huet, the Virgin Mary medallion was his one constant link to Cecile, the woman ...