On the dark sea off Viet Nam one night last week, British Freelance Photographer Tim Page was along for the ride as the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Point Welcome routinely searched for enemy gunrunners. Suddenly, two U.S. Phantom jets flashed out of the sky, inexplicably assuming that the cutter was an enemy trawler. Page drowsily stumbled on deck and was immediately riddled with shrapnel. At 22, Page had become the first allied correspondent to be wounded three times in the Viet Nam war—and survive.
A gangling figure in baggy fatigues, Page has a...
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