--- description: Five decades after Paul Schutzer was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War in June 1967, LIFE presents the last pictures he ever made. title: Paul Schutzer: A Great Photographer's Final Pictures image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc65f88948e5461f/698847670b72e330766e304e/05_117371662.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Paul Schutzer, Casualty of War: A Great Photographer's Final Pictures by [Ben Cosgrove](/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 26, 2014 9:02 PM CUT  Israeli troops, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Israeli troops, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967.Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images by [Ben Cosgrove](/author/ben-cosgrove/) ## Ben Cosgrove Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 26, 2014 9:02 PM CUT Paul Schutzer died 47 years ago, in June 1967, on the first day of the [Six-Day War](http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/850855/Six-Day-War "undefined"). The 36-year-old LIFE photographer was riding in a half-track personnel carrier with Israeli soldiers when he was shot through the head, moments before a bazooka round struck the half-track and wounded a half-dozen troops. Days later, Schutzer’s body was found. Alongside his remains was his camera, baking in the desert sun; inside were the last pictures he ever made. Here, LIFE.com presents those pictures, in humble tribute to a master photographer and a great journalist taken too soon. New photos show Don, Megan, Roger and Peggy all hanging out in an airport and on an airplane together For weeks after his death, LIFE’s editors, correspondents and even LIFE readers paid tribute to Schutzer in the pages of the magazine he had helped shape for close to a decade. For some, he was a trusted and valued colleague; for others, he was a stranger whose work through the years had consistently and deeply moved them, delighted them, shocked them; for still others, he was a friend and not someone easily, or ever, replaced. “Paul Schutzer and I went to college together and my memories of him will always be pleasant,” a reader named Mel Buxbaum wrote to the editors in the June 7, 1967, issue of LIFE. “He was a unique observer of people and events. . . . He saw the world through the eye of an accomplished artists and sculptor — perhaps this was the key to his remarkable genius with a camera.” LIFE’s longtime managing editor, George P. Hunt, offered a clear-eyed and loving tribute to Schutzer in the June 16, 1967, issue. “Paul was 36,” Hunt wrote, “but he seemed younger. His brown hair, friendly hazel eyes and handsome boyish face all told so much about his buoyancy and warmth. Indeed, Paul was a man deeply concerned with the human spirit, and it was this — his compassion for people — that made him the brilliant photographer he was.” --- > “” --- --- > “” --- _Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com_  Contact sheet of pictures from LIFE photographer Paul Schutzer's last roll of film, 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Israeli troops, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Israeli troops, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Israeli troops, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Israeli troops, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Israeli troops, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Israeli troops, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Tank, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Tank, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Tank, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Tank, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Tank, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Tank, Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Gaza Patrol: Picture from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  The last photograph Paul Schutzer took, from the roll of film found in his camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Frame from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. Paul Schutzer—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Frame from the roll of film found in Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 1967. 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