This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War. In My Lai, where US forces massacred over 500 villagers, a ...
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 ...
who was later convicted for his role in the My Lai massacre. Photographer Arthur Gatti says "it was their way of commemorating his inhumanity." The 1960s and 1970s was a period of heightened civil ...
NEPTUNE -- Many Vietnam veterans returning home from the war remember getting spit on, with no parade no hero's welcome.
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 ...
William Calley, who during the Vietnam War led his US Army platoon into ... in an incident known in the West as the My Lai Massacre. The killings shocked the US and galvanised the anti-war movement.
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 ...
One of the most devastating conflicts the United States has ever taken part in, this 20-year war was fought in the area around Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as both North and South Vietnam faced off.
He has written several books about the Vietnam War, including "My Lai: An American Atrocity ... connecting the Mỹ Lai massacre to the civilian deaths in "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989 ...