June 8, 1972: During a firefight between the South Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong near the village of Trang Bang, an airstrike misses the Viet Cong positions and drops napalm on the village itself. A group of badly burned children emerges from the cloud of smoke. AP photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut's photograph of nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc, her clothing burned away by the napalm, is published on the front page of the New York Times the following day, and wins the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.