Byron G. Highland (February 8, 1934 – February 21, 1967) was a

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combat photographer during the

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who was killed by a

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alongside the war correspondent and historian

Bernard B. Fall Bernard B. Fall (November 19, 1926 – February 21, 1967) was a prominent war correspondent, historian, political scientist, and expert on Indochina during the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Austria, he moved with his family to France as a child after ...

while observing

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on the

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, Thừa Thiên Province on 21 February 1967, leaving behind his wife, and two sons and a daughter from a previous marriage. The last few minutes which the two spent together are documented in Fall's posthumously published book ''Last Reflections on a War'', via a tape recorder Fall was dictating into just prior to the explosion. Born in

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, he entered the Marines in 1953, and also served in the

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. His eldest son, Kenneth E. Highland, later recorded a song with the

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band Johnny and the Jumper Cables, entitled "Landmine", about his father's death.

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