Napalm girl runs nude on the road helpless: Vietnam War Iconic Photo

Napalm girl runs nude on the road helpless: Vietnam War Iconic Photo

This is a iconic photo from June 8, 1972, 9-year-old Kim Phuc (Napalm girl) running naked, while her cloths and body burnt, with hers brothers, cousins after South Vietnamese forces airstrike flaming napalm on civilians known as Napalm Attack during Vietnam War, the smoke is clearly visible all around. She is still alive and still in pain as her skin burnt critically.


Details: The complete name Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road near Trảng Bàng, Vietnam, after a napalm bomb was dropped on the village of Trảng Bàng by a plane of the Vietnam Air Force. The village was suspected by United States Army forces of being a Viet Cong stronghold. Kim Phúc survived by tearing off her burning clothes. Kim Phúc (aged 9; middle left) runs naked in the street. Also pictured is her older brother Phan Thanh Tam (aged 12; far left), younger brother Phan Thanh Phuoc (aged 5; background left, looking back) and younger cousins Ho Van Bo and Ho Thi Ting (boy and girl, respectively; middle right). The image is an Associated Press photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news, was taken by Nick Ut.

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