Trang Bang, South Vietnam, June 8, 1972: The US Air Force accidentally dropped napalm bombs on a civilian temple. Young photographer Nick Ut, one of a group of journalists who witnessed the tragedy, realizes a snapshot of his life that day. In her lens, a naked little girl trying to escape the flames that devour her. Representing the “hell of Vietnam”, this photo has been circulated all over the world. It has been haunting Kim Phuc’s life every day for fifty years…
A world-famous horror scene frozen on glossy paper that Alexis Michalik told us this evening in his voice. That of a little 9-year-old girl running naked, third degree burned by a napalm bomb; A flammable mixture of gelled phosphorous gasoline and plastic that adheres to the skin. This shot was taken by photographer Nick Ut, working for the Associated Press, on June 8, 1972, in the village of Trang Bang, Vietnam. That day, the commander of the South Vietnamese army (supported by the Americans) decided to bombard what was supposed to be a Viêt-Cong bunker. ” Phan Thị Kim Phúc, nicknamed the “little girl from Napalm,” remembers soldiers shouting at the children to run first. I ran on the road in front of the Cao Dai temple. A plane was coming towards me. When I turned my head, I saw four bombs falling. The fire was all around me. »
The little girl from napalm: the story of a photograph, Sunday, April 9 at 10:45 PM, France 5
THOMAS GAETNER
Source: Programme Television
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