↑The girl in the picture: the story of Kim Phuc Denise Chong — 2000 "Sometimes, all she caught by the light of her lamp was a checkered, black-and-white scarf, the trademark khan ran worn by the southern revolutionary."
↑Stanley I. Kutler (1996) Encyclopedia of the Vietnam WarISBN 978-0-132-76932-7 "Note the black-and-white checked scarf in the background, an identifying symbol of the Viet Cong guerrilla"