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06 September, 1965
A mother and her children wade across a river to escape US bombing.
The US Air Force had evacuated their village because it was suspected of being used as a base camp by the Viet Cong. In September 1965, the US Marines started a clearing operation in the area north of their military base in the South-Vietnamese coastal town of Quy Nhon. The base was under constant attack from Viet Cong snipers, hiding in the surrounding villages. To secure the perimeter around the naval base, the Marines swept through the villages rounding up suspects while evacuating the villagers. The US Air Force also moved to bomb the villages from the air, attacking Viet Cong sniper positions.
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Kyoichi Sawada
After graduating from Aomori Prefectural High School, Kyoichi Sawada (Aomori City, Japan 1936 - Cambodia 1970) worked in a photography store on the US military base at Misawa, wh...
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Tim Page, a personal memoir
By Martin Stuart-Fox
| November 13, 2023
Tim Page died on the 24th of August in the house that he and his partner, Marianne Harris, built in a clearing on the edge of Bellingen Forest. The house is homely, hung with prints of Tim’s photographs and lined with his Buddhas and books. From the verandah where he sat each morning, the view down the clearing is of stands of towering grey gum and ironbark. It is a place of peace, but it took Tim a long journey to arrive there.
The obituaries that appeared in the days after his death, online and in newspapers from London to Los Angeles, mostly focused on when he was a combat photographer during the Vietnam War, on the fact that he was wounded four times, on the drugs and sex and rock-and-roll of those years. They referred to Page’s cameo appearance in Michael Herr’s Dispatches to claim that he thought war was “glamourous.” And they mentioned that he was probably the model for the manic, doped-up photojournalist played by Dennis Hopper in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, 1979.
More perceptive was the tribute of fellow photojournalist Ben Bohane writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, who noted that, first and foremost, Page was a humanist, “always alive to the power of p