My Lai, known as Tu Cung to the Vietnamese, one of the nine hamlets

located near Son My. It was known as "Pinkville" to the GI's, because on their

military maps it was colored rose. It is located in South Vietnam, in the Quang

Ngai province. Quang Ngai is located on QL-1, the only South Vietnam

national highway. Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 11th Brigade built a base

camp at Duc Pho, a small village in the southern part of Quang Ngai. When

they arrived at Duc Pho, they found the villages destroyed. On January 30th,

the Viet Cong and NVA launched an attack in South Vietnam, known as the

Charlie Company suffered many casualties, although never came

close to any Ciet Cong. The Viet Cong set up mines and booby traps.

One day, while the men of Charlie Company were patrolling close to Son My,

they came upon a heavily laid minefield. Fifteen men were wounded or killed.

They had suffered twenty-eight casualties all together, just from mines and

Charlie Company was led by Lieutenant William Calley. Calley was

chopper between the soldiers and the civilians, and said if anybody

South Vietnamese were enemies to both the North Vietnamese and the Americans.

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