LIFE Behind the Picture: Larry Burrows’ ‘Reaching Out,’ 1966

Wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie (center, with bandaged head) reaches toward a stricken comrade after a fierce firefight south of the DMZ, Vietnam, October 1966.
Behind the Picture
'60s
Larry Burrows—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Forty years after the Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973, LIFE.com revisits one of the most indelible, searing photographs made during the long, divisive war in Vietnam. Read More

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