Fifty years ago today, a nine-year-old girl was happily playing with her cousins in a temple courtyard as planes swooped overhead loaded with lethal .
Little did Kim Phuc know that moments later she would become known around the world, immortalized as the tragic face of the Vietnam War when she ran naked and screaming towards a photographer after being doused in napalm in Trang Bang in the south of the war-ravaged country.
The searing and unforgettable image taken by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut shocked all who saw it, apart from US President Richard Nixon, who believed it had been 'fixed' to sway public opinion against his brutal campaign.
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