Max Desfor, an Associated Press photographer whose image of hundreds of Korean War refugees crawling across a damaged bridge in 1950 helped win him a Pulitzer Prize, died on Monday at his home in Silver Spring, Md. Mr. Desfor volunteered to cover the Korean War for the news service when the North invaded the South in June 1950. He was in a Jeep near the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, when he spotted a bridge along the Taedong River that had been bombed. Thousands of refugees were lined up on the north bank waiting their turn to cross the river. They were in and out of it, on top, underneath, and just barely escaping the freezing water.”

Source: New York Times February 21, 2018 21:56 UTC