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Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division, arrived in South Vietnam in December 1967. Though their first three months in Vietnam passed without any direct contact with People's Army of Vietnam or Viet Cong (VC) forces, by mid-March the company had suffered 28 casualties involving mines or booby-tra...
After returning to base at about 11:00, Thompson reported the massacre to his superiors.:176–179His allegations of civilian killings quickly reached LTC Barker, the operation's overall commander. Barker radioed his executive officer to find out from Medina what was happening on the ground. Medina then gave the cease-fire order to Charlie Company to...
Officers
1. LTC Frank A. Barker – commander of the Task Force Barker, a battalion-sized unit, assembled to attack the VC 48th Battalion supposedly based in and around Mỹ Lai. He allegedly ordered the destruction of the village and supervised the artillery barrage and combat assault from his helicopter. Reported the operation as a success; was killed in Vietnam on 13 June 1968, in a mid-air collision before the investigation had begun. 2. CPT Kenneth W. Boatman – an artillery forward observer; was accu...
1st Platoon, Charlie Company 1st Battalion 20th Infantry
1. PFC James Bergthold, Sr. – Assistant gunner and ammo bearer on a machine gun team with Maples. Was never charged with a crime. Admitted that he killed a wounded woman he came upon in a hut, to put her out of her misery. 2. PFC Michael Bernhardt – Rifleman; he dropped out of the University of Miami to volunteer for the Army. Bernhardt refused to kill civilians at Mỹ Lai. Captain Medina reportedly later threatened Bernhardt to deter him from exposing the massacre. As a result, Bernhardt was...
Other soldiers
1. Nicholas Capezza – Chief Medic; HHQ Company;insisted he saw nothing unusual. 2. William Doherty and Michael Terry – 3rd Platoon soldiers who participated in the killing of the wounded in a ditch. 3. SGT Ronald L. Haeberle– Photographer; Information Office, 11th Brigade; was attached to Charlie Company. Then SGT Haeberle carried and operated two cameras during the operation: an official US Army-issued camera using black and white film, which was submitted as part of the report in the operat...
A photographer and a reporter from the 11th Brigade Information Office were attached to the Task Force Barker and landed with Charlie Company in Sơn Mỹ on 16 March 1968. However, the Americal News Sheet published 17 March 1968, as well as the Trident, 11th Infantry Brigade newsletter from 22 March 1968, did not mention the death of noncombatants in...
Following the massacre a Pentagon task force called the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group(VWCWG) investigated alleged atrocities which were committed against South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops and created a secret archive of some 9,000 pages which documents 320 alleged incidents from 1967-1971 including 7 massacres in which at least 137 civil...
Music
Over 100 songs were released about the My Lai massacre and Lt. William Calley, identified by the Vietnam War Song Project. During the war years (from 1969–1973), around half of the songs displayed support for Calley, while around half took an anti-war position and criticized the actions of Calley. All the songs in the post-war era were critical of the actions of Calley and his platoon. Commercially, the most successful song was "The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" by Terry Nelson, which peaked at...
On television, film and video
1. The 1971 documentary Interviews with My Lai Veteranswon the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subjects. In it, five American soldiers discussed their participation in the massacres. 2. In 1975, Stanley Kramer and Lee Bernhard directed a docudrama, Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley, with Tony Musante as Lieutenant Calley, and Harrison Fordas Frank Crowder. 3. On 2 May 1989, the British television station Yorkshire Television broadcast the documentary Four Hour...
In theater
The Lieutenantis a 1975 Broadway rock opera that concerns the Mỹ Lai massacre and resulting courts martial. It was nominated for four Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical.
In the view of many commentators at the time, the massacre has caused a serious rupture in the narratives that Americans liked to tell about themselves. Mỹ Lai holds a special place in American and Vietnamese collective memory. A 2.4-hectare (5.9-acre) Sơn Mỹ Memorial dedicated to victims of the Sơn Mỹ (Mỹ Lai) massacre was created in the village o...
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