Larry Burrows was a seasoned veteran of the Vietnam War when, in early 1968, he met 12-year-old Nguyá»?n Thá»? Tròn.
Operating out of Saigon, the southern Republic of Vietnam's capital, the photographer had been covering the conflict for LIFE magazine since 1962. He shadowed American troops, documenting ferocious firefights, surviving hours in the air with helicopter-gunship crews, and freeze-framing harrowing moments of bravery and despair, exhaustion, and appalling violence in combat zones.
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