40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken

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The children are running and crying because their village had just been attacked by the ARVN to take it back from North Vietnamese forces. The people in the picture are victims of a blue on blue attack from the South Vietnamese AF, the pilot of the attack plane had mistaken the gaggle of people for NVA forces and attacked with napalm, which is why the child's clothes are missing, they were burned off.

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Kim Phuc, left, at the Fairmont Royal York with Nick Ut, the photographer who took the famous, Pulitzer Prize-winning, June 8, 1972 photo of Phuc running naked in in the wake of a napalm attack on her village during the Vietnam War.