In this June 8, 1972 file photo taken by Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut, Television crews and South Vietnamese troops surround 9-year-old Kim Phuc on Route 1 near Trang Bang, South Vietnam, after she was burned by a misdirected aerial napalm attack. A South Vietnamese plane targeting suspected Viet Cong positions dropped its flaming napalm on the civilian village. It only took a second for Ut to snap the iconic black-and-white image of Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down the road after a napalm attack in 1972, but it communicated the horrors of the Vietnam War in a way words could never describe, helping to end one of America's darkest eras.
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