Horst Faas, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer who later was editor of The Associated Press staff in Saigon that produced the most haunting photographs of the Vietnam War, died Thursday in Munich. He was 79.

His death was confirmed by the AP.

Faas covered wars in Congo and Algeria in the late 1950s before being sent to Vietnam in 1962. Though seriously wounded in a jungle rocket attack in 1967, he remained in what he called “this little bloodstained country” until 1973, shortly before the U.S. withdrawal.

Faas earned Pulitzers in 1965 for combat photographs from Vietnam and in 1972 for his coverage of the conflict in Bangladesh.

As celebrated as his own pictures were, the photographs that came to be most closely associated with Faas were two that he selected, as an editor, for transmission around the world.

The first, taken by Eddie Adams in 1968, showed a Vietnamese official, his pistol at arm’s length, executing a captured Viet Cong soldier at point-blank range. The second, taken in 1972 by the Vietnamese photographer Huynh Cong Ut, showed a group of terror-stricken children fleeing the scene of a U.S. bombing, a young girl in the middle of the group screaming and naked, her clothing incinerated by burning napalm.

In interviews, Faas avoided grand statements about the power of photography to change public opinion. He was at times adamantly fatalistic on the issue.

“I don’t think we influenced the war at any time,” he said in 1997. “I don’t think we helped to win it or helped to lose it. We didn’t work on the outcome of the war.” Making pictures about the suffering and horror of war, he said, was simply better than not making them.

Faas was known at the AP, which he joined in 1956, for his role as a teacher and mentor. During the Vietnam War, he trained a cadre of young Vietnamese men to take pictures, supplying them with cameras, film and daily marching orders. Some became professionally successful, including Ut, who now works in Los Angeles.

Faas’ survivors include his wife, Ursula, and his daughter, Clare Faas.