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The My Lai massacre (/ ˌ m iː ˈ l aɪ /; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a war crime committed by United States Army personnel on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh district, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.
Nov 9, 2009 · The My Lai massacre was an attack on the Vietnamese village of My Lai during the Vietnam War, when hundreds of civilians were raped and murdered by U.S. troops.
May 27, 2024 · The sole U.S. casualty had occurred when a soldier shot himself in the foot while trying to clear a jammed weapon. Historical account of the My Lai Massacre, the mass killing of hundreds of unarmed civilians by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War.
On 16 March 1968—fifty years ago—First Lieutenant William L. “Rusty” Calley, Jr., and his platoon murdered at least 300 Vietnamese civilians (and perhaps as many as 500) at a small South Vietnamese sub-hamlet called My Lai. This article examines what really happened in the “My Lai Incident,” or the “My Lai Massacre” as it is ...
Oct 11, 2017 · On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army soldiers acting on orders from their commanding officers massacred several hundred innocent Vietnamese civilians. The men were killed, while many of the women were also raped, their bodies mutilated, and their children slaughtered right in front of them.
On March 16, 1968 the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai. "This is what you've been waiting for -- search and...
Mar 16, 2018 · Lt. William Calley grabbed one woman by the hair and blew her brains out with his .45-caliber pistol. Then he shot to death an infant she’d been carrying. In total, Calley is thought to have...
On March 16, 1968, during a roughly four-hour operation in the Vietnamese village of Son My, American soldiers killed approximately 504 civilians, including pregnant women and infants,...
The story of the My Lai Massacre, its cover up, and the subsequent investigation involves hundreds of people. Not all the men of Charlie Company participated in the Massacre, and even fewer...
On 16 March 1968, US troops led by Lieutenant William Calley targeted My Lai, a village of around 700 people in South Vietnam. Their aim was to find members of the. Viet Cong. In the massacre...
