Hugh Thompson Jr.
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Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. was a United States Army helicopter pilot, serving as a warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division. He is credited with ending the Mỹ Lai m
Thompson in 1966
Hiller OH-23 Raven, three-seat, light observation helicopter, similar to the one Thompson commanded during the massacre
My Lai massacre
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The My Lai Massacre was a U.S. Army war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of between 347 and 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men, in Sơn Mỹ village, Quả
Hugh Thompson Jr.
…States Army helicopter pilot, serving as a warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division. He is credited with ending the Mỹ Lai massacre of the South Vietnamese village known as Sơn Mỹ on March 16, 1968, alongside Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn. During the massacre, Thompson and…
Photo taken by U.S. Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle in the aftermath of the massacre, showing mostly women and children dead on a road— famously used in the "And babies" poster
Sơn Mỹ operations, 16 March 1968
American soldiers from Company C disembark helicopters outside the hamlets.
American soldiers interrogate an old man and two children, one an infant. Photographer Ronald L. Haeberle did not see what ultimately happened to them.