Though napalm had been used during World War II, it was dropped much more frequently during the Vietnam War. Essentially jellied gasoline, napalm sticks to skin on contact and burns off flesh.

Napalm is one of those American inventions that you wish weren’t, sort of like Agent Orange, killer drones, ... How is it related, if at all, to the flame-throwers of World War II?

Not so. Claims that “Napalm Girl” stirred Americans to oppose the war have been made again and again. Journalism professor Samuel Freedman’s assertion that the “searing image played no ...

World Press Photo also pointed to ongoing questions over equipment. The AP has previously said it is “likely” the photo was taken using a Pentax camera, which Nghe is known to have used.

Controversial doc ‘The Stringer’ investigates famous Vietnam War photo. The documentary, which probes who took the “Napalm Girl” photograph, comes to Sundance under a shadow of backlash.

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut, center, flanked by Kim Phuc, left, holds the" Napalm Girl", his Pulitzer Prize winning photo as they wait to meet with Pope Francis during the weekly ...

PARK CITY – Sundance always holds surprises in store, and Saturday night a documentary about one of the most famous war photographs ever taken – a Vietnamese girl running naked from a napalm ...

By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press. It is one of the 20th century’s most memorable images: a naked girl, screaming, running from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War.