The Mỹ 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
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.
William Laws Calley Jr. was a United States Army officer and war criminal, convicted by court-martial of the murder of 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, d
Calley after his arrest, 1969