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Just me and some friends...

"Best wishes to my friend, colleague and good Marine - Steve Stibbens - from Joe Rosenthal."  1965: Maj. Gen. Lewis Walt, visits mountain-top outposts in Northern I Corps. "With warm personal regards and fond memories of our tour in Vietnam. Lew Walt, 'Four-star Grunt,' Gen. USMC" 1945 - Photo by Lou Lowery, my photo editor at Leatherneck. "1st Flag Raising, Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Best wishes to Steve Stibbens, outstanding writer-photog. Lou Lowery"  
  
General Wallace M. Greene, 23rd Commandant of the Marine Corps, prepares to salute my field scarf during a parade at the Marine Barracks, Washington, DC.  Steve Stibbens on assignment to photograph President Harry S. Truman.  

My excellent adventures as a correspondent 
   Marine Combat Correspondent Steve Stibbens wades out to a hovering helicopter after a lightning "Eagle Strike" in the Mekong Delta, South of Saigon. Photo by Horst Faas, AP. Marine Combat Correspondent SSgt. Steve Stibbens, Leatherneck Magazine, writes notes during a combat operation in the Northern Provinces of I Corps.  
A weary Henri Huet, AP Photographer, snapped in the AP's Saigon office after a week in the field. 1964: AP photographer Horst Faas (R) and Marine Combat Correspondent Sgt. Steve Stibbens (L) of Pacific Stars & Stripes, wait with ARVN Rangers for a return flight to Saigon after covering combat operations in the Mekong Delta. 1979 - French Photographer Christine Spengler is arrested with her assistant in Iran during the revolution. Now living in Madrid, she mixes combat with high fashion and fine art photography.  
Nov. 1, 1963 - Horst Faas pauses in front of the AP offices on Rue Pasteur, directly across from the beseiged palace of President Ngo Dinh Diem during the coup 'd etat. UPI reporter Neil Sheehan talks over the results of a recent operation in the Mekong Delta, South of Saigon.  Dickey Chapelle, in a NY hospital bed surrounded by some of her Marine friends. (L-R) Mo Morrisey, Lou Lowery, Dick Phelan, Steve Stibbens. In bed with Dickey, recovering from knee surgery after a parachute jump, is Ron Lyons, Deputy Editor, Leatherneck magazine.    

   1963: Breakfast on the trail during a 10-day mountain combat patrol with 85 Koho montagnards and three Special Forces sergeants. The tribesmen needed one hot meal a day which was taken in early morning when cooking smoke mixed with the mountain fog. Photo by Horst Faas, AP.  Special Forces SSgt. Howard Stevens and Steve Stibbens, holding M-2 carbine with banana clip, return from 10 days of combat operations in the mountains of Vietnam's Central Highlands.  

 Stibbens holding "Swedish K" rifle at Dak Rotah, a lonely outpost on the Laotian border with Vietnam.  Stibbens (2nd from right) as a "loader" on the crew of a Marine M-48 tank in the Chu Lai area of Vietnam. Marine Major Arv Realson prepares to leave on an RF-4 recon mission over Laos with AP correspondent Steve Stibbens riding in the back seat. Photo by Marine Lt. Dick Haack.  

       AP Gang in Saigon: (L-R) Peter Arnett, Don Huth, Roy Essoyan, Horst Faas (front) Bob Eunson, Sam Jones, Malcolm Browne  
The Saigon AP Gang - 1963

  The entire Saigon Press Corps at Christmas, 1962.  
Happy Christmas from all 20 Saigon correspondents - 1962 

  Embassy social life as usual... just 4 days after the big battle at Ap Bac, later called the first battle of the 'American War.' Cocktails at 6:30...

 Crossing the border from Cambodia into Vietnam (L-R) Horst Faas, Edie Lederer, Nick Ut, Steve Stibbens. Horst Faas and Steve Stibbens crossing the Ben Hai River, finally. The river formerly served as the border between North and South Vietnam. 
Friends for more than 40 years! Nick Ut (L), David Halberstam (C) and Steve Stibbens.  Horst Faas (L) and dear friend, Larry Burrows, LIFE Magazine's master photographer, during one of the many "barbed-wire days" in Saigon. Larry was killed in a helicopter crash in 1971. Danger! Mines! Stibbens at the Angkor Wat area in Cambodia. Photo by Sarah Monks, Executive Editor, the Hong Kong Tiger-Standard.  

     

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