The British photojournalist, Tim Page, passed away at the age of 78 after suffering from liver cancer at his home in New South Wales, Australia.
Tim was a great photographer who got four times injury while capturing his iconic images.
Tim's partner Marianne Harris shared the devastating news of his death to The New York Times.
Tim shared a Vietnam conflict on his Instagram for his fans and wrote a long detail story,
"A long time ago in a distant war, we came together as a band of brothers covering that Vietnam conflict."
"We were young & innocent, yet gagging to tell and document the unfolding horror story."
"We lived a km from the centre of Saigon. It was called Frankie’s House."
"A dozen Bao Chi would make 47 Bui Thi Xuan home & leave their imprint."
"The band of brothers has shrunk over the decades, this year Simon Dring and now Joe Galloway."
"None of us expected to live out the war. To survive moments so fraught they seemed as bad as a WWI scenario."
"Joe fought and reported the crucial battle of the Ia Drang Nov ’65, the first major encounter with NVA & US forces, the newly arrived 1st Air Cav."
"The two sides duelled possessed, US firepower & B52’s swung the tide of the battlefield, leaving 234US & 2,000 NVA dead."
"Joe survived this holocaust and went on to write a book about it with then commanding officer Hal Moore. ‘We Were Soldiers Once & Young’, a must read. Later, the movie by & starring Mel Gibson. The battle scarred Joe & never left him. In 1998 he received the Bronze Star with V, in recognition of risking his own life to save wounded soldiers."
"Later, Joe covered Gulf War 1. His reportage echoed that of scribe Ernie Pyle."
"In 194 I engineered visas back to Viet Nam for both Hal & Joe to meet Hal’s counterpart, Commander Nguyen Huu An. A cathartic trip for all and fascinating in the extreme to hear An telling his side."
"Putting together ‘Requiem’, Joe was one of the keystones of our committee. It is no surprise that Joe became an official advisor to Ken Burns for his series ‘Vietnam’."
"Mid 90's we had a reunion of the Frankie’s Brethren in Virginia at ex-UPI Tom Corpora’s Afton winery and other reunions with other Bao Chi in Saigon."
"When Gulf War 2 came around, Joe survived scorn and pressure from the White House and some editors for investigating allegations that Iraq had WMD and Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. He and 3 other correspondents became known as ‘the only ones who got it right’. Fake news before the term was coined. The movie ‘Shock & Awe’ tells the story of the 4, Joe is played by the perfectly cast Tommy Lee Jones."
Tim began his photo journalism by covering the Vietnam War in 1965 at 20, and his photos were published around the globe, The Washington Post reports.
Tim risked his own life to get close to the action. He was wounded four times while on assignment. On one occasion, he was hit by a piece of shrapnel and lost a portion of his brain, according to the Post. He spent months rehabilitating before returning to work.
Tim was partly the inspiration for Dennis Hopper's war photographer character in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now.
Tim revealed about the toll of covering the war on his life in a 2010 interview with The New York Times. He said,
"I can say without a doubt the coverage did affect public opinion. Any war picture is an antiwar picture, I think it was the first and last war that has ever been reported totally openly."
"There had never been that kind of instant coverage of conflict. I'm not saying photography stopped the Vietnam War, I think it contributed to swaying public opinion, It seemed to have a creeping effect on the American psyche when virtually every small town had somebody coming home in a coffin. It forced it to an end or helped it come to an end."
"I don't think anybody who goes through anything like war ever comes out intact,"
In 2013, Tim told Vice why war photography was important and ultimately may have changed the course of the Vietnam War.
