Mỹ Lai massacre
03/16/1968 AD attacked
A mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by United States troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam, on 16 March 1968 during the Vietnam War. Between 347 and 504 unarmed people were killed by U.S. Army soldiers.
Soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment and Company B, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division participated.
Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and were as young as 12.
Sơn Tịnh District
Lattitude: 15.1666° N
Longitude: 108.8666° E
Region: South East Asia
Modern Day Vietnam
Lattitude: 15.1666° N
Longitude: 108.8666° E
Region: South East Asia
Modern Day Vietnam
Subjects Who or What attacked?
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William Calley Jr Former American army off...
Objects To Whom or What was attacked?
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Vietnam Country in Southeast Asi...
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