Vietnam’s Horror Captured
This June marked the fiftieth anniversary of the famous photograph of Phan Thị Kim Phúc taken during the Vietnam War – a reminder of the horrors of war, and of all those whose stories will never be told.
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A South Vietnamese bomber attacking a hamlet 17 miles north of Saigon. (Photo by Bettmann)
On the afternoon of 8 June 1972, nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc cowered with her family from the shells and machine gun fire that shook her town of Trảng Bàng in south-eastern Vietnam. Fearing that their small shelter would be targeted, soldiers ordered them to flee to the nearest roadblock. Robert Neer and Denise Chong […]