... frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the village of My Lai. The objective of the American military mission was clear: search and destroy the My Lai hamlet of Son My village in the Quang Ngai Province of South Vietnam. The unit of the U.S. army Americal division, led by Lt. William L. Calley, invaded the South Vietnamese ... hamlet, an alleged Viet Cong stronghold. In the course of combat operations, unarmed civilians, including women and children, were shot to death. The final army estimate for the number killed was ... ...

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... service, Captain Medina rose to give the soldiers a pep talk and discuss the next day's mission. Medina told them that the Vietcong's crack 48th Battalion was in the vicinity of a hamlet known as My Lai, which would be the target of a large assault by the company. The soldiers' mission would be to engage the 48th Battalion and destroy the village of ... My Lai. By 0700 hours, Medina said, the woman and children would be out of the hamlet and they could all expect to encounter the enemy. The soldiers were to explode brick homes, set fire to thatch homes, shoot livestock, poison wells, an...

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... United States (Barr 73). More domestic terrorism was going on then ever before. Even in Vietnam, things were happening with Americans. General William Calley Jr. led his platoon into the hamlet of My Lai in search of enemy Vietcong (Barr 75). Calley did not find any enemies, just a bunch of innocent people, but Calley was taught that any Vietnamese was a potential ... ...

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... Vietnamese civilians will never be known. The Criminal Investigation Divsion of the U.S. Army thought they had killed 374 men, women and children, not adding the number killed in the nearby Hamlet of Binh Tay. Through a report made to Province chief, the Vietnamese charged Charlie Company with 400 muders at My Lai and 90 more in Co Luy. In the village of ... ...

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... though he was sick of death and destruction. One time we Caputo is on duty he finds a village that has a detonating cord coming out of it, h! e then proceeds to fire a hamlet on the village without any concern whether it was a VC village. During a mission in which Caputo had to go into a village, two Vietnamese people are shot. Caputo didn't actually do ... ...

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... shelling was what killed most civilians, however, and the architectural treasures of Hue were laid to waste. In March 1968, elements of the U.S Army's Americal Division wiped out an entire hamlet called My Lai, killing 500 unarmed civilians, mostly women and children (Dougan and Weiss, 267). The Tet-Offensive finally came to an end. The ARVN's 2nd battalion secured the main ... ...

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... a massacre of Vietnamese civilians by united states soldiers. On March 16, 1968, a unit of the united states army air missile division, led by Lt. William L. Calley, invaded the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong stronghold. In the course of combat operations, unarmed civilians, including women and children, were shot to death. The death toll totaling 347 people ... ...

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