My Lai Massacre
- Created by: oliverhiggins
- Created on: 18-03-17 22:15
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- My Lai Massacre - March 1968
- Destruction
- Village burnt to ground
- Livestock killed
- Wells closed
- Perpetrators
- 23rd Infantry Division A.K.A. Charlie Company
- Under huge stress
- Inexperienced
- None of Charlie Company attacked
- Lieutenant Calley
- Only officer (1 of 14) involved convicted
- Sentenced to life in prison - only served 3 years of house arrest
- Personally pardoned by President Nixon
- Aftermath
- Army cover-up
- Exposed by Hugh Thompson - eyewitness and helicopter pilot
- Public morale plummeted
- Army cover-up
- Sentenced to life in prison - only served 3 years of house arrest
- Only officer (1 of 14) involved convicted
- 23rd Infantry Division A.K.A. Charlie Company
- Aftermath
- Army cover-up
- Exposed by Hugh Thompson - eyewitness and helicopter pilot
- Public morale plummeted
- Army cover-up
- Destruction
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