Dana Stone

Dana Stone
Sean Flynn (left) and Dana Stone (right) , riding motorcycles into Communist-held territory in Cambodia on April 6, 1970
Born	Dana Hazen Stone April 18, 1939 North Pomfret, Vermont
Disappeared	April 6, 1970 (aged 30) Cambodia
Status	Declared dead "in absentia"
Died	June 1971?
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Louise Smizer

Dana Hazen Stone (April 18, 1939 in North Pomfret, Vermont; believed killed June 1971 in Bei Met, Cambodia) was a U.S. photo-journalist best known for his work for CBS, UPI, AP during the Vietnam War.

Stone went to Vietnam in 1965. Before arriving he bought a Nikon, his first camera, in Hong Kong. After arriving in Saigon he met Henri Huet who showed him how to load film into the camera. He became friends with fellow photographers and journalists including Sean Flynn, Tim Page, Henri Huet, John Steinbeck IV, Perry Deane Young, Nik Wheeler, Chas Gerretsen, and others. Dana started freelancing for UPI and later became a staffer with the AP. He soon became a combat photographer of note while going on missions with the Green Berets from his base in Da Nang.

He and his wife Louise Smizer left Saigon for Europe in 1969, driving a VW Camper from India overland to Lapland in Sweden where, for a short time, he became a lumber jack.

In 1970, on hearing of the US military incursion into Cambodia, he flew to Bangkok, Thailand and waited there impatiently with many other journalists until the new, pro-US government allowed the press to enter Cambodia.