Editing Robert Capa (section)

===First Indochina War and death, 1954===
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In the early 1950s, Capa travelled to Japan for an exhibition associated with Magnum Photos. While there, ''Life'' magazine asked him to go on assignment to Southeast Asia, where the French had been fighting for eight years in the [[First Indochina War]]. Although he had claimed a few years earlier that he was finished with war, Capa accepted the job. He accompanied a French regiment located in [[Thái Bình Province]] with two ''Time-Life'' journalists, [[John Mecklin]] and Jim Lucas. On May 25, 1954, the regiment was passing through a dangerous area under fire when Capa decided to leave his jeep and go up the road to photograph the advance. Capa was killed when he stepped on a landmine near the road.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aronson |first1=Marc |last2=Budhos |first2=Marina |title=Eyes of the World Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism |date=2017 |publisher=Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC. |isbn=9780805098358}}</ref><ref name=Davenport/>{{rp|155}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Badenbroek|first1=Michael|title=Robert Capa – war photographer|url=http://www.army-photographer.com/index.php/robert-capa|website=army-photographer.com|access-date=April 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504232954/http://www.army-photographer.com/index.php/robert-capa|archive-date=May 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He was 40 at the time of his death. He is buried in plot #189 at [[Amawalk Friends Meeting House|Amawalk Hill Cemetery]] (also called Friends Cemetery), Amawalk, Westchester County, New York along with his mother, Julia, and his brother, [[Cornell Capa]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robert Capa (1913-1954) - Find a Grave Memorial |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169/robert-capa |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=www.findagrave.com |language=en}}</ref>