In 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire over Laos and exploded in a fireball; killing four top combat photographers: Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of Associated Press, Kent Potter of United Press International, and Keisaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek. The remoteness of the crash site made a recovery attempt impossible.<BR>When the war ended four years later, the war zone was sealed off and the helicopter incident faded from the headlines. But two journalist colleagues and friends of the victims - the authors of this book - kept their memory alive and returned to Laos twenty-seven years later to resolve mysteries about the crash - and to pay homage to their lost friends.