• 1972 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.

Phan Thị Kim Phúc


June 8, 1972: Kim Phúc, center, running down a road naked near Trảng Bàng
after a South Vietnam Air Force napalm attack (Nick Ut / The Associated Press)

Born: Phan Thị Kim Phúc; April 6, 1963 (age 61); Trảng Bàng, South Vietnam
Nationality: Canadian
Other names: Kim Phúc
Citizenship: South Vietnam (1963–1975); Vietnam (1975–1997); Canada (1997–present)
Alma mater: University of Havana, Cuba
Occupation(s): Author, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
Known for: Being "The Girl in the Picture" (Vietnam War)
Spouse: Bui Huy Toan ​{m. 1992)}
Children: 2
Awards: Order of Ontario

Phan Thị Kim Phúc OOnt (Vietnamese pronunciation: [faːŋ tʰɪ̂ˀ kim fúk͡p̚]; born April 6, 1963), referred to informally as the girl in the picture[1] and the napalm girl, is a South Vietnamese-born Canadian woman best known as the nine-year-old child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, titled "The Terror of War", taken at Trảng Bàng during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972.

The image, taken for the Associated Press by a 21-year-old Vietnamese-American photographer named Nick Ut, shows her at nine years of age running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack.[2]

She later founded the Kim Foundation International to provide aid to child victims of war.[3]

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