Hubert van Es

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Hubert van Es is the Dutch photographer who took the well-known photo of the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, which shows South Vietnamese civilians scrambling to board a CIA Air America helicopter during the U.S. evacuation of Saigon.

As it happens

Van Es, who was working for United Press International, had remained in the city for as long as possible before its occupation by North Vietnamese troops. That day he had taken pictures of Saigonese burning documents that could associate them with the United States as well as that of a Marine confronting a Vietnamese mother and her little boy. Later that day he would take his famous picture:

When North Vietnamese troops arrived, Van Es wore a camouflage hat bearing a small plastic Dutch flag printed with the Vietnamese words "Boa Chi Hoa Lan" ("Dutch Press").

The building in the photo, which has been incorrectly identified as the US Embassy since the 1970s, was not labeled as such by Van Es. Van Es has stated that he wrote, for the caption of his photograph, that the helicopter was taking evacuees off the roof of a building in downtown Saigon (22 Gia Long Street). The current address is 22 Ly Tu Trong Street and they don't allow visitors up on the roof.

Van Es would later cover the Moro Rebellion in the Philippines and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He attempted to return to Vietnam but was not able to do so until 1990.

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* [http://www.air-america.org/reunion_images/2002_Bangkok_VanEs.shtml Bangkok 2002 Reunion Photo Gallery (Van Es is pictured)]