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Shrapnel ricochets off the walls of the humvee, hitting Beverly, Jenks and TIME photographer James Nachtwey. Smoke rises from the high-back. Blood pours from Weisskopf's right arm; when he holds it up, he realizes the grenade has blown off his hand. Specialist Billie Grimes, a medic attached to the platoon, sprints out of the third humvee and hoists herself onto the high-back. She uses a Velcro strap tied to her pant leg as a tourniquet to stop Weisskopf's bleeding and applies a field dressing to the wound while loudly asking the three other passengers if they...
SNAPSHOTS OF A SOLDIER'S LIFE: Photographer James Nachtwey kept watch with U.S. soldiers as they grilled suspects, returned fire, grabbed a smoke, e-mailed home...
WOUNDED. MICHAEL WEISSKOPF, 57, senior correspondent for TIME, and JAMES NACHTWEY, 55, TIME photographer, in a grenade attack as they were traveling with two soldiers in a humvee; in Baghdad. Weisskopf, a Washington-based correspondent on assignment in Iraq, picked up the grenade to throw it out of the vehicle, losing his right hand. All four men are in stable condition...
...WOUNDED. MICHAEL WEISSKOPF, 57, senior correspondent for TIME, and JAMES NACHTWEY, 55, TIME photographer, in a grenade attack as they were traveling with two soldiers in a Humvee; in Baghdad. Weisskopf, a Washington-based correspondent on assignment in Iraq, picked up the grenade and threw it out of the vehicle, losing his right hand...
...world's most acclaimed photojournalists, Nachtwey debated whether to travel with U.S. troops but opted in the end to work from Baghdad, where he has recorded the sights--the rubble of damaged buildings, the bomb victims in hospital wards--of a city under withering attack. The severe weather that has hampered allied troops has also hit Baghdad. "The sandstorm was the most amazing sight," says Nachtwey. "It looked like the prelude to an apocalypse...