It was on March 16 1968 that the My Lai massacre took place in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province where hundreds of Vietnamese ...

On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, U.S. Army soldiers hunting for Viet Cong fighters and sympathizers killed as many ...

Few Americans born after the Tet Offensive know even the barest facts about the Vietnam ... War’.” The war was “a system of suffering.” Turse is sick of hearing about My Lai—the ...

While multiple officers were charged in connection with the massacre ... University and author of the book “My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War.” “But the fact is, the vast ...

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 ...

And while the My Lai massacre was the most notorious massacre in modern U.S. military history, it was not an aberration: Estimates of civilians killed during the U.S. ground war in Vietnam from ...

This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War. In My Lai, where US forces massacred over 500 villagers, a ...

Helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson speaks with reporters at the Pentagon on Dec. 4, 1969, after testifying about the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam ... of the entire war, and perhaps unique ...

Protesters carrying photos of Lieutenant Calley, a US military officer, who was later convicted for his role in the My Lai massacre ... flashpoint was the US’s ongoing involvement in the Vietnam War.

Events like the My Lai Massacre were reported in the US press leading many ordinary Americans to question the war. Film footage ... on US-held areas across South Vietnam, including the US Embassy ...

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 ...