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The photojournalist Nick Ut, immortalized Kim Phuc, "the little girl with napalm" in Vietnam.

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Kim Phuc then adds the famous directive by Henry Kissinger regarding the bombing campaign in Vietnam and Cambodia at bottom, "'Anything that flies on anything that moves.' - Henry Kissinger".

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AP's legendary 'Napalm Girl' photographer Nick Ut to retire

AP photographer Nick Ut captured what would become a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo depicting children fleeing from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War. In the center of the frame, running towards the camera, was a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, who came to be known as “napalm girl.”

In 1973, AP photographer Nick Ut won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for “The Terror of War,” his photograph featuring Phan Thị Kim Phúc. The image was unprecedented at the time for the Associated Press news wire, given the full frontal nudity. Although it was a controversial decision, Ut’s fellow Associated Press colleagues, Hal Buell and Horst Faas, deemed the photograph newsworthy, and it was widely distributed on the AP newswire.

The photograph is now considered one of the most memorable of the 20th century.

>>> READ MORE ABOUT NICK UT, FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

(PHOTOS: NIck Ut/AP)

A single photo can change the world

Can a photograph help end a war? Pictures from Ukraine by combat photographers, including contract photographer James Nachtwey and Associated Press photojournalists Felipe Dana, Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka, have brought to light the horrific consequences of Russia’s invasion and the unconscionable treatment of innocent civilians. Fifty years ago, I was in the same position as those…