Photographer Catherine Leroy - During the Vietnam War, she shot some of the most brutal photographs to come out of the country. Wounded by shrapnel while covering a US Marine unit in the DMZ, she was taken prisoner during the Tet Offensive by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), and during her imprisonment, talked the NVA into being photographed. She left the war with post-traumatic stress but kept covering war zones from Northern Ireland, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and more. She died in 2006
![Our guys came home from Vietnam to - radicals calling them Baby Killers, spat on them and worse. They received near zero support for what they had been "Drafted" to do. No [or very little]Heroes Welcome for our own. It was shameful! Vietnam Map, American Patriot, C130 Hercules, Agent Orange](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/d2/c3/65/d2c3651afd72b0cf7b3d572cb6bbbdca--rip-dad-vietnam-veterans.jpg)
!["Catherine Leroy was surely the most unlikely-looking war photographer you could meet less than 5ft...Born in Paris around the time of the city's liberation in 1944...She became one of the most renowned war photographers of the 20th century...She was the first newsperson... to parachute into combat w/US forces... the first to photograph the Vietcong behind their own lines...Tet offensive...[raised in] convent but moved by images of war...she "give war a human face". http://www.salem-news.com/ French Photographers, Female Photographers, Women In History, World History, Iraq War](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/f6/48/6a/f6486a9be931c415da480c83d32dff8e--human-faces-parachutes.jpg)
