- Is best known for his picture's in the Vietnam War.
- Winner, with Michel Laurent, of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography, "[f]or their picture series, 'Death in Dacca'".
- Winner of the 1965 Pulitzer Prize in Photography, "[f]or his combat photography of the war in South Viet Nam during 1964".
- Combat photographer.
- He covered wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Algeria in the late 1950s, and was sent to Vietnam in 1962. He was seriously injured in a jungle rocket attack in 1967, but remained in Vietnam until 1973.
- The photos most closely associated with him were two that he selected, as an editor, to be transmitted around the world. They were so graphic that the unwritten rules of journalism would have prevented their publication. Faas made sure that the world saw those photos. The first, taken by photographer Eddie Adams in Saigon in 1968, shows a South Vietnamese official executing a captured Vietcong soldier at point-blank range. The second, taken in 1972 by South Vietnamese photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut, shows a group of terrified children fleeing a napalm attack, a girl in the middle of the group screaming and naked, her clothes incinerated.
- His most indelible childhood memories of Berlin were of food shortages, evacuations, and antiaircraft action as Allied planes dropped bombs.
- His interest in photography was accidental. There were few opportunities for education in postwar West Germany. He got a job in the library of a local photo agency. The agency eventually needed more photographers, so he started taking pictures.
- During the Vietnam War, he trained a group of young South Vietnamese men to take photos, supplying them with cameras, film, and daily assignments. Some of them became successful professionals, including Nick Ut, who now works in Los Angeles.
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