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Summary February 1971

To be written

February 24

Francois Sully, a French correspondent working for Newsweek magazine, was riding with South Vietnamese General  Do Cao Tri in Tay Ninh province when the helicopter burst into flames and crashed.  Sully was Med Evac'd to the 24^th and taken off the bird by PFC Mic Mahoney.  Sully later died of his wounds and was buried in the French cemetery in Saigon. (Source: Mic Mahoney)

Sully  was educated at Harvard and served as a member of the French resistance in World War II, and arrived in Vietnam (then French Indochina) just as the Japanese surrendered.  Though he tried tea farming and sheep raising in Vietnam, panthers ate his sheep and he returned to journalism.  He covered the fighting in Vietnam most of his professional life, including the battle at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. (Source:  Requiem by the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina.  Faas and Page)

Updated October 14, 2000