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  • War photographer Catherine Leroy dies at 60

    07/09/2006 8:21:01 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 13 replies · 1,912+ views
    AP on KESQ ^ | 7/9/06 | AP
    Catherine Leroy, the French-born photojournalist whose stark images of battle helped tell the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications, has died. She was 60. Leroy died of cancer early Saturday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said the attending physician, Dr. Jerome Helman. Leroy was 21 years old in 1966 when she took a one-way ticket to Saigon to document American troops in Vietnam. A year later she became the only accredited journalist to participate in a combat parachute jump, joining the 173rd Airborne in Operation Junction City. In 1968,...