Former Associated Press photographer Dang Van Phuoc, who was wounded multiple times during the Vietnam War and returned to capture the action even after losing an eye in a grenade explosion, died in Southern California on May 23. He was 91. Born in a Vietnamese village near Quang Ngai, south of Da Nang, Phuoc was hired in 1965 by AP's former photo chief, Horst Faas, to replace another local hire who had been killed on assignment. Faas called Phuoc AP's "secret weapon." One of his most moving photographs was of an American soldier stooping slightly to help a fragile old woman resettle in a refugee camp.

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