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.

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.

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 is best known as “the girl in the picture”, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken by Nick Ut in 1972 at the height of the Vietnam War. She was 9 years old then, napalm bombs were ...

'Napalm Girl' Phan Thi Kim Phuc has final surgery after 50 years HALF a century after suffering horrific burns, Vietnam's Napalm Girl has had a final skin graft and declared herself 'a survivor'.

To the editor: The photo of 7-year-old Chloe Hoskins walking through her devastated neighborhood in Santa Rosa evoked memories in me of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken by Nick Ut in 1972 of ...

Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the Vietnamese woman who as a 9-year-old girl was photographed fleeing a 1972 napalm attack, says she wants the picture to be used as a protest against wars.

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