MILWAUKEE – Former Army Capt. Ernest L. Medina, a key figure in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, has died in Wisconsin. He was 81. Medina was an Army captain on March 16, 1968, when ...

50 years ago today, American soldiers massacred hundreds (estimates range from 347 to 504) of elderly men, women and children in Quang Ngai Province in what was then South Vietnam. The My Lai ...

And while My Lai was the most notorious massacre in modern U.S. military history, it was not an aberration: Estimates of civilians killed during the U.S. ground war in Vietnam from 1965 to 1973 ...

(CNN) — William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, which saw more than 300 unarmed Vietnamese civilians killed by ...

MY LAI, Vietnam (AP) — With talk of peace and cooperation rather than hatred, more than a thousand people marked the 50th anniversary Friday of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the most notori… ...

MY LAI, Vietnam — Lawrence Colburn returned to My Lai on Saturday and found hope at the site of one of the most notorious chapters of the Vietnam War. On the 40th anniversary of the massacre of ...

This week in 1968, with America's involvement in the Vietnam War increasing every month, several platoons of American soldiers from Charlie Company were ordered to attack the tiny hamlet of My Lai ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Former Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang and his wife Mai Thi Hanh lay flower during the 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre in My Lai village, Vietnam March 16, 2018.

QUANG NGAI, Vietnam (Reuters) – Vietnam marked 50 years since the My Lai massacre on Friday in a memorial ceremony at the site of the killings that was attended by survivors of the massacre ...

William Calley, officer convicted for his role in My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, dead at 80. By CNN Newsource. Published July 30, 2024 6:34 PM . By ...

MY LAI, Vietnam – More than a thousand people are marking 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre, using the event to talk of peace and cooperation instead of hatred. In 1968, American soldiers ...

For decades, Calley’s name was synonymous with one of the worst atrocities of the Vietnam War, as the lieutenant who led Charlie Company to My Lai, though he maintained he was following orders.