John Martin Mecklin (1918–1971) was the last writer who teamed up with Robert Capa. In the 7 June 1954 edition of Life he described how Capa met his death. Early in the morning of 25 May 1954, a French Army Jeep picked up Capa, Mecklin and the journalist Jim Griffin Lucas from their hotel. In Nam Ðḻnh, ninety kilometres south-east of Hanoi, they joined a a French convoy. After crossing the river, they continued to Thái Bình. At 8.40 am the convoy was attacked. “Capa was everywhere,” wrote Jim Lucas. “At one point, under mortar fire, he carried a wounded Vietnamese soldier to the Jeep. Later on, impatient, he jumped off the truck. ‘I’m going up the road a little bit. Look for me when you get started.’” According to Mecklin, the time was 2.50 pm. Capa photographed the patrols combing the rice fields. Suddenly, there was an explosion. A land mine. Mecklin rushed over and found Capa seriously wounded. He called his name several times. By now it was 3.10 pm. Capa had two cameras around his neck, a Contax and a Nikon, one with a black and white film and the other colour, all set to take his last photograph.