In 1967 eleven year old Lỗ Mạnh Hùng became the youngest war photographer ever. He worked alongside his father who was also a photographer and took on difficult jobs like any other war correspondent in Saigon, ready to be present at hot battle spots in Saigon city during the 1968 Tet Offensive. He managed to board a helicopter and escape Saigon in 1975 when the city fell to the North Vietnamese. (Neatorama)
According to a Facebook post Lỗ Mạnh Hùng made a home in America and died in 2018 while revisiting Saigon.
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