Taken on June 8, 1972, the photo is credited to Ut, then a 21-year-old staffer in AP’s Saigon bureau. He was awarded the Pulitzer a year later. Now 73, he moved to California after the war and ...
The island of Tinian was used to launch U.S. bomber raids on Japan during World War II, including the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.