Hospital staff readies Life Magazine photographer Co Rentmeesteris for further transport after tending to his wounds at a U.S. Army hospital Rentmeester was brought to the hospital after being hit by a bullet while covering the fighting in Saigon May 6th near Tan Son Nhut. Rentmeester was hit in his left hand. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces started shelling more than 120 provincial capitals, towns and allied military installations across South Vietnam on May 5th, and battled governement and U.S. troops inside the capital Saigon. The Dutch photographer was hit with the same bullet that also wounded fellow photographer Art Greenspon, a freelancer for the Associated Press. The follow-up punch to the Communist Tet offensive of January 31st would last several days and already had cost the lives of 5 journalists by the time Greenspon and Rentmeester were hit.