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His pictures from that 1968 day in Vietnam showed the world what really happened at My Lai. A half-century later, they are still haunting.
And babies (December 26, 1969 [2]) is an iconic anti-Vietnam War poster. [1] It is a famous example of "propaganda art" from the Vietnam War, [3] that uses a color photograph of the My Lai Massacre taken by U.S. combat photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968. It shows about a dozen dead and partly naked South Vietnamese women and ...
Ronald L. Haeberle (born c. 1941) is a former United States Army combat photographer best known for the photographs he took of the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968. The photographs were definitive evidence of a massacre, making it impossible for the U.S. Army or government to ignore or cover up. [2]
The My Lai massacre (/ m iː l aɪ / MEE LY; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [1]
Most of the men were still relative newcomers to Vietnam but 20 soldiers — about 10% of the company — had been wounded or killed by buried landmines. ... Jones in "My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and ...
William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American ...
During the Vietnam War Lai Khê was a garrison town as the ARVN 5th Division was based there for most of the 1960s/70s. [1] Lai Khe barracks, 24 April 1967 Lai Khe helicopter revetments, 24 April 1967. Lai Khê was also the Headquarters for the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division from October 1967 until January 1970.
My Lai Massacre: March 16, 1968 Mỹ Lai and My Khê hamlets, Sơn Mỹ, Quảng Ngãi, South Vietnam 504 U.S. Army: Son Tra massacre: June 28/9, 1968 Sơn Trà, Bình Sơn District, Quảng Ngãi, South Vietnam 88 Viet Cong: Thanh Phong massacre (disputed) February 25, 1969 Thanh Phong village of Bến Tre Province, South Vietnam 21 U.S. Navy