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U.S. News & World Report
March 24, 2018
For 50 years, the Martins have marked their anniversary as well as that of the My Lai massacre, in which as many as 500 villagers were shot dead just 8 miles ... The next day soldiers from U.S. Army's 23rd Infantry Division entered and destroyed My Lai on the suspicion that members of the Viet Cong, theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2018
Army helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson speaks with reporters at the Pentagon on Dec. 4, 1969. (Associated Press). To the editor: We can still do more to thank Hugh Thompson, the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who prevented even more murders of Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers in My Lai 50 yearsÃâà...
Press Herald
March 18, 2018
In less than four hours, more than 500 Vietnamese civilians – including elderly men, women and children – were dead in the villages of My Lai 4, Binh Tay, Binh Dong and My Khe 4. The American forces sustained one casualty that day; it was self-inflicted. Thirteen soldiers faced allegations of rape, butÃâà...
New York Times
March 16, 2018
Operating under the assumption that villagers of My Lai would be away at the market, Captain Medina planned an aggressive sweep through the area, ordering his men to destroy everything and to kill anyone who resisted. By the end of the day American forces had killed 347 to 504 unarmed VietnameseÃâà...
Reason
March 16, 2018
As Thompson said in the 1989 British documentary Four Hours in My Lai, they "started seeing a lot of bodies—it didn't add up, you know, how many people were getting killed and wounded, and we weren't receiving any fire." Thompson radioed back to base there there was "a whole lot of unnecessaryÃâà...
Detroit Metro Times
March 14, 2018
In an eerie coincidence, three years later to the day, on the morning of March 16, 1968, a detachment of U.S. soldiers arrived at a number of hamlets designated My Lai in central Vietnam. The soldiers of Charlie Company had been briefed the night before that all the residents would be gone to market, andÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 11, 2018
As the 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre approaches, survivors of the 1968 massacre spoke to the dpa news agency about the deaths of up to 504 civilians at the hands of US soldiers during the war in Vietnam. Although 26 US soldiers were charged with war crimes, only the platoon leaderÃâà...
The Sun Chronicle
March 9, 2018
But the names Calley and My Lai are inextricably linked in one of the darkest chapters in American military history and can never be forgotten. ... a unit of the 20th Infantry, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, that attacked the village of My Lai (also known as Son My) in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam.
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