A news report on November 12th, 1969
November 12th, 1969
A new report of a military offensive in Vietnam has been investigated and released by an independent journalist named Seymour Hersh. Hersh released that an operation occurring on March 16th, 1968 in the small village of My Lai resulted in the deaths of between 175 and 200 innocent Vietnamese men, women and children, and only 3 or 4 confirmed Vietcong were in the village. The massacre is reported to have been carried out by U.S. Army soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd Infantry Division. The current status of whether or not the soldiers participating in what seems to be a horrible massacre being put to trial is still unconfirmed, however blame has already been attempted to be shifted to four members of the group of men who were killed in action in later operations, primarily being Lieutenant Colonel Frank Barker, who was killed in action in a mid air collision three months after the incident. As more information comes to us, we will relay anything we can on this tragedy.
A new report of a military offensive in Vietnam has been investigated and released by an independent journalist named Seymour Hersh. Hersh released that an operation occurring on March 16th, 1968 in the small village of My Lai resulted in the deaths of between 175 and 200 innocent Vietnamese men, women and children, and only 3 or 4 confirmed Vietcong were in the village. The massacre is reported to have been carried out by U.S. Army soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd Infantry Division. The current status of whether or not the soldiers participating in what seems to be a horrible massacre being put to trial is still unconfirmed, however blame has already been attempted to be shifted to four members of the group of men who were killed in action in later operations, primarily being Lieutenant Colonel Frank Barker, who was killed in action in a mid air collision three months after the incident. As more information comes to us, we will relay anything we can on this tragedy.