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
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.
Ernest Medina
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Ernest Lou Medina was a captain of infantry in the United States Army. He served during the Vietnam War. He was the commanding officer of Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry of the 11th Brigade, A
My Lai massacre
…mutilated. The incident is the largest massacre by U.S. soldiers in the 20th century. On the morning of the massacre, C Company, commanded by Captain Ernest Medina, entered the hamlet of Mỹ Lai 4 expecting to confront the Viet Cong's Local Force 48th Battalion, which was not there. The killings began as troops…
Medina's mugshot