... 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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... 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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