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(Redirected from Kyoichi Sawada) Japanese photojournalist (1936–1970)
Kyōichi Sawada (1965), and his work "Flight To Safety"

Kyōichi Sawada (沢田 教一, Sawada Kyōichi, February 22, 1936, – October 28, 1970) was a Japanese photographer with United Press International who received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. Two of these photographs were selected as "World Press Photos of the Year" in 1965 and 1966. The 1965 photograph shows a Vietnamese mother and children wading across a river to escape a US bombing.

"Dusty Death", Sawada's 1966 photo that won the World Press Photo of the Year

The famous 1966 photograph shows U.S soldiers of the 1st Infantry division dragging a dead Viet Cong fighter to a burial site behind their M113 armored personnel carrier, after he was killed in a fierce night attack by several Viet Cong battalions against Australian forces during the Battle of Suoi Bong Trang on 24 February 1966.

He also documented the Battle of Hue in 1968, for example capturing an image of Lance Corporal Don Hammons immediately after being wounded by enemy fire; he died minutes later.

On October 28, 1970, Sawada and Frank Frosch, UPI Phnom Penh branch chief, were ambushed by unknown assailants and assassinated while returning to Phnom Penh by car from a news-gathering outing to Takéo Province. The bodies of the two men were found abandoned in a rice paddy near the road, riddled with bullet holes. No blood or bullet holes were found in their car, suggesting that they had been dragged from their vehicle and killed execution-style. There was no chance they had been mistaken for soldiers since they were driving in a civilian car and were wearing brightly colored civilian clothing.

Notes

  1. "1965 – World Press Photo". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
  2. "1966 – World Press Photo". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
  3. "Vietnam in the Front Lines - Battle for Hue". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15.
  4. "Executed by the Khmer Rouge".
  5. "2 More Newsmen Slain by Reds in Cambodia". The New York Times. 30 October 1970.


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