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== Death == Burrows died on 10 February 1971 with fellow photojournalists [[Henri Huet]] (Associated Press), Kent Potter ([[United Press International]]) and Keisaburo Shimamoto ([[freelancer]] with ''[[Newsweek]]''),<ref name=":2">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1999/12/burrows199912 |title=Saigon Quartet |last=Pyle |first=Richard |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date=2 April 2008 |language=en |access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref> when their helicopter was shot down over the [[Ho Chi Minh trail|Ho Chi Minh Trail]] in [[Laos]]<ref name="nytimes" /> as the group covered [[Operation Lam Son 719]].<ref name=":2" /> Following his death the [[Managing editor|Managing Editor]] of ''Life'', [[Ralph Graves (writer)|Ralph Graves]], said of Burrows:<ref name=":5" /> {{Blockquote|text=I do not think it is demeaning to any other photographer in the world for me to say that Larry Burrows was the single bravest and most dedicated war photographer I know of.|sign=Ralph Graves|source=}} Of his work, Burrows himself said, "I cannot afford the luxury of thinking about what could happen to me".<ref name=":5" /> In 1985, the Laurence Miller Gallery in New York published a portfolio of Burrows' prints, with the assistance of his son Russell Burrows.<ref>{{cite news |title=Vietnam Photo Exhibit on Display at Chrysler |newspaper=[[Newport News Daily Press]] |date=September 29, 1985 |page=I-11}}</ref> In 2002, Burrows' posthumous book ''Vietnam'' was awarded the [[Prix Nadar]] award.<ref name=":3">{{cite news |access-date=2018-11-27 |title=Et aussi... Le prix Nadar à Vietnam, de Larry Burrows |trans-title=And also... The Prix Nadar to Vietnam, by Larry Burrows |url=https://www.humanite.fr/node/275393 |newspaper=[[L'Humanité]] |date=23 November 2002 |language=fr}}</ref> In 2008 the remains of Burrows and fellow photographers Huet, Potter and Shimamoto were honoured and interred at the [[Newseum]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=":1" /> Journalist [[David Halberstam]] paid tribute to Burrows in the 1997 book ''Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina'':<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/person/detail/1771/larry-burrows |title=Larry Burrows |website=[[World Press Photo]] |access-date=2019-06-02}}</ref> {{Blockquote|text=I must mention Larry Burrows in particular. To us younger men who had not yet earned reputations, he was a sainted figure. He was a truly beautiful man, modest, graceful, a star who never behaved like one. He was generous to all, a man who gave lessons to his colleagues not just on how to take photographs but, more important, on how to behave like a human being, how to be both colleague and mentor. Our experience of the star system in photography was, until we met him, not necessarily a happy one; all too often talent and ego seemed to come together in equal amounts. We were touched by Larry: How could someone so talented be so graceful?|sign=David Halberstam|source=''Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina''}} In December 2019, the Newseum was closed due to financial difficulties and the remains of Burrows, Huet, Potter and Shimamoto were disinterred. Their remains are currently stored at the [[Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency]] lab at [[Offutt Air Force Base]] awaiting a permanent burial place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Recent-News-Stories/In-The-News/Article/2503681/remains-of-5-vietnam-war-photojournalists-killed-in-copter-crash-wait-at-offutt/ |title=Remains of 5 Vietnam War photojournalists killed in copter crash wait at Offutt for permanent burial |first=Steve |last=Liewer |publisher=[[Omaha World-Herald]] |date=16 February 2021 |access-date=12 May 2022}}</ref> In 2021, Burrows was posthumously inducted into the [[International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Larry Burrows |url=https://iphf.org/inductees/larry_burrows/ |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=[[International Photography Hall of Fame]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
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