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"The Terror of War", photograph showing Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road near Trảng Bàng, Vietnam, after a napalm bomb was dropped on a group of South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians by a plane from the South Vietnam Air Force. The village was suspected by United States Army forces of being a Viet Cong stronghold, and mistook the group for enemy combatants while they were fleeing from a Temple. Kim Phúc survived by tearing off her burning clothes. Kim Phúc (aged 9; middle) runs naked in the street, severely burned. Also pictured is her older brother Phan Thanh Tam (aged 12; far left), younger brother Phan Thanh Phuoc (aged 5; background left, looking back), and younger cousins Ho Van Bo and Ho Thi Ting (boy and girl, respectively; middle right). This Associated Press photograph won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. |
| Date | 8 June 1972 |
| Source | "1973 Photo Contest, World Press Photo of the Year". Originally published in 1972. Cropped from source image to the portion that was published in newspapers in 1972. (backup source http://web.archive.org/web/20110121082648/culturevisuelle.org/catastrophes/files/2010/11/petite-fille-napalm-vietnam.jpg) |
| Author | Nick Ut (and/or The Stringer, disputed); World Press Photo is suspending authorship attribution of the iconic 1972 photograph known as ‘The Terror of War.’ https://www.worldpressphoto.org/news/2025/authorship-attribution-suspended-for-the-terror-of-war |
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The photo was published simultaneously in many newspapers, many of which had no copyright notice at all (neither for the photo in particular, nor for the newspaper as a whole). For example: Copyright was therefore forfeited per section 9 of the Copyright Act of 1909, which required that notice of copyright be affixed to every published copy. |
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| current | 06:59, 3 September 2025 | | 1,000 × 671 (656 KB) | Pluderhose (talk | contribs) | == Summary == {{Information | description = "The Terror of War", photograph showing Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road near Trảng Bàng, Vietnam, after a napalm bomb was dropped on a group of South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians by a plane from the South Vietnam Air Force. The village was suspected by United States Army forces of being a Viet Cong stronghold, and mistook the group for enemy combatants while they were fleeing from a Temple.... |
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