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KYOICHI  SAWADA

News Organization: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

Died 1970

Location: CAMBODIA

War: VIETNAM WAR (1965-1975)

Bio:

Killed Oct. 28 with his news agency's Phnom Penh bureau chief, J. Frank Frosch, when their car was riddled with bullets by Vietnamese or local communists south of Phnom Penh. Both were taken to a nearby field and shot repeatedly. In 1966, he won the Pulitzer Prize for news photography.