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On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known as'Pinkville'because of the high level of Vietcong infiltration. The soldiers, many still teenagers who had been in the country for three months, were on a'search and destroy'mission. The Tet Offensive had occurred only weeks earlier and in the same area and had made them jittery; so had mounting losses from booby traps and a seemingly invisible enemy. Three hours after the GIs entered the hamlets, more than five hundred unarmed villagers lay dead, killed in cold blood. The atrocity took its name from one of the hamlets, known by the Americans as My Lai 4. Military authorities attempted to suppress the news of My Lai, until some who had been there, in particular a helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson and a door gunner named Lawrence Colburn, spoke up about what they had seen. The official line was that the villagers had been killed by artillery and gunship fire rather than by small arms.

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Author

Howard Jones

Publisher

New York, NY: Oxford University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190228774

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14