My War In Vietnam: From The Photographer Who Took The Iconic 'Napalm Girl' Image

This picture Kim Phuc running away from her bombed village when she was just nine is now instantly recognisable and seen as a defining image of the Vietnam war

My War In Vietnam: Forty Years On, Photographer Who Took Iconic 'Napalm Girl' Image Shares His Other Incredible Images -- Daily Mail

* Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut's image was almost not printed because of Associated Press's strict policy on naked pictures
* Ut now works from the bureau's Los Angeles branch covering celebrity court cases
* He has been reunited several times with 'Napalm girl' Kim Phuc who he helped rescue after taking the picture
* Among his images of devastation, including one of the napalm blast, are photos of soldiers relaxing and having fun

It is one of the most recognisable pictures ever taken and an image that not only defined a war, but defined the career of the man who took it.

Kim Phuc was just nine years old when she ran naked towards Associated Press photographer and Pulitzer prize winner Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut screaming 'Too hot! Too hot!' as she headed away from her bombed Vietnamese village.

She will always be remembered for the blobs of sticky napalm that melted through her clothes and left her with layers of skin like jellied lava. Her story has been told many times over the last 40 years since the shot was taken.

But now, to mark four decades since Ut took the picture he has released more moving images that he took during the Vietnam war that chart the horrors of that fateful day in 1972.

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My Comment: I agree .... this is one of those photos that will always be remembered.

Update: For a look at how much the area where the above picture was taken has changed in Vietnam after 40 years ..... go here. The Daily Mail story for this is here. What's my take .... wow .... after 40 years everything has changed.