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It was there that he took these photos -- one of which has come to define the Vietnam War. The photos are in chronological order. Hide Caption. Smoke from a napalm bomb rises over a Trang Bang church. As bombs drop in Trang Bang, soldiers and members of the international media watch the scene in the foreground. The aerial attack was intended for enemy forces on the outskirts of the village, but it accidentally hit South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians.

Here, a man and woman carry injured children down the road following the bombing. Women carry severely burned children down the road after the attack.

An anguished woman carries her napalm-burned child. More injured people walk down the road. Ut also photographed terrified children running from the site of the attack. Nine-year-old Kim Phuc, center, ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing.

The powerful photograph, which won Ut a Pulitzer Prize, communicated the horrors of the war and contributed to the growing anti-war sentiment in the United States. Seven months later, the Paris Peace Accords were signed. After taking the children's photograph, Ut took them to a hospital. A South Vietnamese soldier crouches beside his friend who suffered severe napalm burns. Injured civilians and soldiers flee from the site of the attack. Television crews and South Vietnamese troops surround Phuc.

That image jolted people around the world. Some say it hastened the end of the Vietnam War. Now 52, she lives just outside Toronto, a wife, mother and survivor inextricably linked to a photograph that dominated front pages in , seven months before the signing of Paris Peace Accords led to the withdrawal of U. In the beginning, says Phuc, she hated the photo. It embarrassed her. And she struggled with the publicity that surrounded it. For her.

In fact, no one would blame Phuc if she had tried to get as far away from the image as possible. But that is not what she did.

Read More. After a long struggle, Phuc came to realize that if her pain and terror had not been captured on film that day, the bombing -- like so many other wartime horrors -- might have been lost to history. She began to think about what the photograph could give, rather than what it could take away. Eventually, the photo became much more than a depiction of a moment in time to Phuc -- it became what she calls "a path to peace. And that is my choice. Running and screaming: the photo that changed a war It's hard to square the anguish and terror of the girl in the picture with the warm, relaxed, engaging presence that is Kim Phuc today.

Besides being a loving wife and mother, she is a mentor, and a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations. Every year she travels the world to recount her story of survival, to raise awareness about the brutality of war. In addition to her work with the U. Its mission is to help the most underprivileged children suffering from war -- building hospitals, schools and homes for children who have been orphaned. Phuc says she plans to live out her life in service of that mission.

Phuc and her husband claimed asylum in Canada more than 20 years ago and have raised two boys there. Phuc says she is very happy in her "second home" and gratified that her parents have been able to join her in Canada. Now, says Phuc, that terrified little girl in the picture is "not running anymore.

She's flying. It was not always so. In Phuc lived in the village of Trang Bang, north of Saigon. She and family were sheltering in a temple when they heard planes overhead. Afraid they would be bombed, they ran outside to find safety, just as bombs detonated all around the temple. The bombs delivered napalm, a flammable liquid that clings to human skin, causing horrific burns when ignited.

Phuc remembers intense heat and excruciating pain. She pulled burning clothes from her body. She ran. Moments later, a young Associated Press photojournalist took the photograph of his life. Nick Ut was only 21 years old and already a seasoned war photographer when he arrived at that South Vietnamese village. Photos: Iconic photos of the Vietnam War. Jeremiah Purdie, center, reaching toward a stricken soldier after a firefight south of the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam in Commonly known as Reaching Out, Burrows shows us tenderness and terror all in one frame.

According to LIFE, the magazine did not publish the picture until five years later to commemorate Burrows, who was killed with AP photographer Henri Huet and three other photographers in Laos. Associated Press photographer Nick Ut photographed terrified children running from the site of a Vietnam napalm attack in A South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped napalm on its own troops and civilians.

Nine-year-old Kim Phuc, center, ripped off her burning clothes while she ran. The image communicated the horrors of the war and contributed to growing U. After taking the photograph, Ut took the children to a Saigon hospital. Eddie Adams photographed South Vietnamese police chief Gen. Adams later regretted the impact of the Pulitzer Prize-winning image, apologizing to Gen. Nguyen and his family. A helicopter raises the body of an American paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border in Most of them, they just ask me, why you are naked?

Why you crying? And I say, yes, because the bomb drop and I got burned. I also show them my scar on my back. And they love me and they kiss my scar. All my journey, I help children, building school, building hospital, orphanage home.

Question : What do you see when you look at that photo of the girl in the picture? In , I wanted to take my life, because I thought, after I die, no more suffer, no more pain. I am so thankful. My name is Kim Phuc Phan Thi. This is my Brief But Spectacular take on pain and forgiveness. Judy Woodruff : Wow.

All her tears were coming out. I was sure she was going to die any minute in my car. When we arrived at the hospital in Cu Chi, nobody wanted to help her because there were so many wounded soldiers and civilians already there.

The local hospital was too small. Then I went back to develop my film at the AP office in Saigon. Did you process the film yourself or was there a lab technician?

Me and the best darkroom person in Southeast Asia, Ishizaki Jackson, who was also an editor, went into the darkroom and rolled the film onto the spools. I had eight rolls of film. He heard that and clipped one negative and printed a five by seven of it. The editor on the desk at that time was Carl Robinson.

Move the picture right away! How did the editors in New York react to the photo of Kim Phuc, since it contained nudity? We got a call from New York saying my photo was an amazing picture and was being used around the world. The news value was so important, that in this case it was O.

The next morning around A. They got in a lot of trouble. When the bombing was over, they found their bodies everywhere. They dropped the bombs in exactly the right place. It was not an accident. Before they dropped the napalm, the South Vietnamese army soldiers threw yellow smoke grenades to mark the target near the temple. Nobody was officially warned, but the fighting had already gone on two days, so everybody thought all the townspeople had gotten out already.

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