Year: 1972
Photograph by: Nick Ut, for AP photographs

Showing a flock of children running away from a napalm attack by the South Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. The 9-year old naked girl at the center of the photo is Phan Thi Kim Phuc. She was admitted to the hospital by the photographer with severe burns on her back.
This photo led to a huge outcry back in the American mainland.