NEW ORLEANS – Hugh Thompson Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, died early Friday. He was 62. Thompson, whose ...

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Second Lt. William Calley waits for a verdict from a court-martial panel in 1971. (Joe Holloway, Jr. / Associated Press) The night before 2nd Lt. William Calley shipped out of Hawaii to Vietnam, he ...

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I arrived over My Lai, which was better known as Pinkville, at about 7:20 in the morning. I was flying a Scout helicopter and my job was to draw out enemy fire. We had been briefed the night before ...

Just a heads-up - this next story contains descriptions of extreme violence and killings. It takes us back to one of America's darkest moments of the Vietnam War, the My Lai massacre. The only U.S.

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On March 16, 1968, chopper pilot Hugh Thompson was uncertain what was going on in the village below. American troops were shooting, but he couldn't see anyone returning fire. He landed his bird when ...

Find out more about the My Lai Massacre and how freelance journalist Seymour Hersh discovered and exposed the truth.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...