Pan Jinshu's documentary

1June 8, 972, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close. A Vietnamese plane mistakenly threw petrol bombs at South Vietnamese troops and civilians. The photo shows a group of children frightened by the firebombs falling from the sky and running around, especially the little girl in the middle, who had to run naked on the road because her clothes caught fire. This image clearly shows the physical pain and the extreme fear of the spirit. This image has torn the heart of every reader with a sense of justice and compassion.

This photo was quickly published on the front page of The New York Times, USA, and suddenly became a sensational topic. This photo vividly reveals the cruelty of war and shows the profound harm of war to human spirit and body. Americans have long been indifferent and numb to this endless war far away from the United States, but this photo once again awakened their conscience and set off a wave of anti-war. Soon, the Vietnam War was over. People said that it was this photo that brought the Vietnam War to an end six months earlier. 1973, this photo won the Pulitzer Prize in the United States, and won the best photo of the year in the Dutch World Photojournalism Competition in the same year.