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Historical Heroines

Catherine Leroy

By 7th August 2018August 27th, 2024No Comments

Photos:

Vietnam icp
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/a-soldier-of-the-1st-air-calvary-division-punches-a-viet-cong-who-was-caught

February 16 1968 cover story on her imprisonment by Vietcong in Life magazine. ‘The enemy lets me take his picture.’ – ten-page spread in the May 14 1968 issue of Look magazine.

Civilians fleeing Fall of Saigon, April 29, 1975 https://dotationcatherineleroy.org/en/her-work/photographs/saigon-1975/

Fall of Saigon, April 30 1975 https://dotationcatherineleroy.org/en/her-work/photographs/saigon-1975/

Vietnam. US Navy officer Vernon Wike with a dying US Marine at the Battle of Hill 881, near Khe Sanh April 1967
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/corpsman-in-anguish
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/wounded-soldier-being-bandaged

British soldier August 1979 Belfast
https://dotationcatherineleroy.org/en/her-work/photographs/northern-ireland/

Vietnam. US bombs pummel Binh Dinh province, September 1966
https://dotationcatherineleroy.org/en/her-work/photographs/vietnam-19661968/

Lebanon
https://dotationcatherineleroy.org/en/her-work/photographs/beirut-civil-war-2/
https://dotationcatherineleroy.org/en/her-work/photographs/beirut-civil-war-2/

Paris Match
https://dotationcatherineleroy.org/en/publications/press/

Interview
https://archive.org/details/CSPAN_20210330_055400_Photojournalist_Catherine_Leroy/start/0/end/60

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqeXp9QA7hY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV4XR4Xe4ro

Films
Operation Last Patrol
Cathy At War, a documentary film produced by the Catherine Leroy Fund, was shown on 8 November, 2022 at the Musée de la Libération de Paris

Books
Elizabeth Becker‘s You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War featuring Catherine’s work won the 2022 Sperber Book Prize, New York’s Fordham University.

Closeup on War
https://www.amazon.com/Close-Up-War-Pioneering-Photojournalist-Catherine/dp/1419746618