In pictures: Hugh Van Es

Dutch photographer Hugh Van Es in a Macao cafe, 1969

Dutch photographer Hugh Van Es, who captured some of the most striking images of the Vietnam War, has died in hospital in Hong Kong at the age of 67.

Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter, 1975

Mr Van Es' most enduring image showed evacuees boarding an Air America helicopter from the top of 22 Gia Long Street, half a mile from the US embassy in Saigon, in 1975.

A wounded U.S. paratrooper of the 101 st Airborne Division is helped through a blinding rainstorm during the 10-day battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969

He covered the Vietnam War between 1969 and 1975, working first for the Associated Press new agency and then for United Press International.

A wounded U.S. paratrooper grimaces in pain as he awaits medical evacuation at base camp in the A Shau Valley near the Laos border in South Vietnam on May 19, 1969

Vietnam war reporter Peter Arnett said Mr Van Es had been "one of the few Western photographers willing to take the risks of witnessing the war's end".

South Vietnamese peasant women and children waiting in the hot midday sun after they were gathered up by U.S. Marines for relocation, 1969

After the war, Mr Van Es returned to Hong Kong from where he continued to photograph conflicts including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Moro rebellion in the Philippines.