Napalm Girl is the common name for a photograph taken in 1972 by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, showing a group of children, including nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc, fleeing in visible pain and terror after a South Vietnamese napalm attack near the village of Trang Bang during the Vietnam War. The photograph won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the World Press Photo of the Year, and it is widely credited with shifting public opinion in the United States against continued involvement in the war. Napalm Girl is widely regarded as one of the most recognized and consequential war photographs ever published.
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1. Phan Thi Kim Phuc (Wikipedia)
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the child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, titled The Terror of War
2. Napalm Girl (Wikipedia)
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The Terror of War, colloquially known as Napalm Girl, is a photograph taken on 8 June 1972.
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It shows a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops.
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