The young woman, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, was a 9-year-old running naked down a road, screaming in agony from the jellied gasoline coating her body and burning through skin and muscle down to bone.

Once dubbed “napalm girl,” she bears the physical and psychological scars of the war that nearly took her life. Her greatest wish today? To comfort the pilot who dropped the bomb.

Kim Phuc Phan Thi: It has been 50 years and I am not the ‘napalm girl’ anymore The surviving people in war photographs must somehow go on. We are not symbols. We are human.

Phan Thị Kim Phuc, the girl in the famous 1972 Vietnam napalm attack photo, is escorting 236 refugees from the war in Ukraine on a flight from Warsaw to Canada.

MILFORD -- The name Phan Thi Kim Phuc isn't recognizable to the average person. But when people hear she's the little girl in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph running from her Vietnam village ...

A photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc as a nine-year-old girl enduring a napalm attack became a defining image of the Vietnam War. Healing has been a decades-long process. Now living in Canada, Kim ...

Phan Thị Kim Phúc's life changed forever on June 8, 1972, at the age of nine. Known as "the napalm girl," the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken of her at Trảng Bàng exposed the world ...

Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the Vietnamese girl whose naked image running away from napalm clouds remains an iconic symbol of the Vietnam War, has finally made peace with the photograph that made her famous.

On Saturday, Kim Phuc Phan Thi, the now 53-year-old subject of the iconic Vietnam War photograph, received her last in a series of cutting-edge laser skin treatments designed to heal the scars ...

Kim Phuc Phan Thi, who endured severe burns and years of operations after a 1972 napalm attack in her native Vietnam, shared her story of recovery, forgiveness and Christian faith Sunday with ...

Kim Phuc Phan Thi, known as “The Napalm Girl” in the famous 1972 Associated Press Vietnam photograph, will be the featured speaker March 29 at the Ashland Area Vietnam Era Veterans Recognition ...

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