military intelligence assumed that the 48th Battalion, having retreated and dispersed, was taking refuge in the village of Sơn Mỹ, in Quảng Ngãi Province. ĭuring the Tet Offensive in January 1968, attacks were carried out in Quảng Ngãi by the VC 48th Local Force Battalion. 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-traps. Operation Sơn Mỹ operations, 16 March 1968Ĭharlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division, arrived in South Vietnam in December 1967. Army for shielding non-combatants from harm in a war zone. Thirty years later, these servicemen were recognized and decorated, one posthumously, by the U.S. congressmen, including Mendel Rivers ( D–SC), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and rescue hiding civilians were shunned, and even denounced as traitors by several U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, both because of the scope of killing and attempts to cover up the events. It contributed to domestic opposition to the U.S. The massacre prompted global outrage when it became public knowledge in November 1969. and called the Sơn Mỹ Massacre in present-day Vietnam. Currently, the event is referred to as the My Lai Massacre in the U.S. Later, when the Army started its investigation, the media changed it to the Massacre at Songmy. Army slang name for the hamlets and sub-hamlets in that area was Pinkville, and the carnage was initially referred to as the Pinkville Massacre. Army topographic maps as My Lai and My Khe. The massacre, which was later called "the most shocking episode of the Vietnam War", took place in two hamlets of Sơn Mỹ village in Quảng Ngãi Province. president Richard Nixon commuted his sentence. Found guilty of murdering 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence but served three-and-a-half years under house arrest after U.S. Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. It is the largest publicized massacre of civilians by U.S. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers mutilated and raped children who were as young as 12. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment and Company B, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Between 347 and 504 civilians were killed by U.S. The My Lai massacre ( / ˌ m iː ˈ l aɪ/ Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai ⓘ) was a war crime committed by United States Army personnel on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh district, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.
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