What happened to… Napalm girl
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Erica Vella revisits the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, 'Napalm Girl.' She speaks with Kim Phuc, the young girl in the photo, and learns about her miraculous survival.
On this episode of Global News podcast What happened to…? Erica Vella takes a closer look at the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, The Terror of War, which is commonly referred to as ‘Napalm Girl‘. She speaks with Kim Phuc, the young girl in the photo and learns about her miraculous survival.
Fifty years ago, Kim Phuc Phan Thi’s life seemed simple; she lived with her family in the village of Trảng Bàng in Vietnam.
The country was in the middle of a war, but she said as a nine-year-old child, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
“The sound of war was just not real to me. It was far, far, far away,” she said.
“For me, I just enjoyed everything.”
Everything would change in June 1972 when several napalm bombs fell on her once peaceful village.
Phuc has vivid memories of the day.
“I saw the airplane was so, so fast (and) so loud … and I stood right there. I didn’t run. Then I turned my head and looked up and I saw the airplane and I saw four bombs landing,” she said.
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