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Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing after being burned by napalm.
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War in Southeast Asia from 1955 to 1975
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American not-for-profit news agency
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Nick Ut
Vietnamese-American photographer and photojournalist
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 and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for the 1972 photograph The Terror…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
American photojournalism award
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Vietnamese-Canadian activist; subject of the famous 1972 Vietnam War photo
Phan Thị Kim Phúc, referred to informally as the girl in the picture and the napalm girl, is a South Vietnamese-born Canadian woman best known as the child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, titled The Terror of War, taken at Trảng Bàng during the Vietnam War on…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Napalm
Gelled incendiary mixture
Napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical. The name is a portmanteau of two of the constituents of the original thickening and gelling agents: coprecipitated aluminium salts of naphthenic acid and palmitic acid. A team led by chemist Louis…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)