The Terror of War
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The Terror of War, colloquially known as Napalm Girl, is a photograph taken on 8 June 1972. It shows a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napal
The Terror of War; Phan Thi Kim Phuc is the girl depicted running naked in the center of the image
Nick Ut
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Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut, is a Vietnamese-American photographer who worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles. He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
The Terror of War
…troops. It is credited as one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War and an indictment of the effects of war on innocent victims in general. Nick Ut was credited as the photographer, receiving several awards including World Press Photo of the Year. After the documentary The Stringer (2025) explored…
Ut in 2016 holding a copy of The Terror of War
Nick Ut in 2015
The Terror of War was awarded World Press Photo of the Year in 1973.