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Once dubbed “napalm girl,” she bears the physical and psychological scars of the war that nearly took her life. Her greatest ...
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On this day in 1972, photographer Nick Ut captured the devastating impact of the Vietnam War on innocent civilians, particularly children.
Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut won the Pulitzer Prize for the photograph of Kim Phuc, a young girl running burnt and naked ...
Fifty-three years ago, the devastating impact of the Vietnam War was captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the "napalm girl." A documentary raises questions about who took the photo.
The image, captured 53 years ago this weekend during the Vietnam War, galvanized the anti-war movement in the U.S. But a new documentary raises questions about who was behind the camera.
LEGENDARY motorbike racer Guy Martin tried his hand at making napalm as he headed to Vietnam to mark 50 years since the end of the war. For the latest “Our Guy in…” Channel 4 series, Gu… ...
In reality, the United States began reducing its combat presence in Vietnam more than three years before “Napalm Girl” was published. By June 1972, nearly 90 percent of US troops had left.
Since its premiere at Sundance, 'The Stringer' has led to a divisive re-examination of the credit for the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1972 photograph that captured the horrors of the Vietnam War.
During the Vietnam War, napalm, a highly flammable gel, was widely used by US and South Vietnamese forces to destroy enemy hideouts, often causing horrific burns and civilian casualties.
The haunting image, seen around the world and hailed as a defining symbol of the Vietnam War’s horrors, is once again under scrutiny as questions resurface about who actually took the photograph.