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My Lai Massacre
History Term Paper Period 5 The massacre occurred during the Vietnam War and was a horrible incident that happened. On March 16th, 1968, three companies of the 1st battalion launched a search and destroy mission in the My Son area. Their main objective was to target the VC 48th Battalion which was found on maps as My Lai. The only people then that knew about the incident that day were the people in the village and the people that caused the massacre. The incident didn't get brought up until 19 months later when Lieutenant William Calley was charged with horrible war crimes for what he did that day in My Lai. The United States went over to Vietnam to stop the spread of communism. It was hard to fight in this war because no one knew exactly who was who. Everyone looked the same and masses of troops died in the Vietnam War. They would hide in bunkers under ground and when the troops got close enough they would open fire. Some untraditional warfare that they carried out was setting up booby traps through out the fields. Now, the troops were sent into My Lai and were told, "This is what you've been waiting for search and destroy and you've got it". The U.S. denies ever saying this to the troops, but why would so many civilians get killed in My Lai? The U.S. covered this whole incident up making believe that it didn't happen, but they couldn't cover it up as well as they had hoped because they forgot about the people that were there and witnessed this horrific event. The troops went into the town thinking they would find Vietnamese troops and have a battle with them. The objective was to go in and defeat them. When they got there all they found were civilians and got upset about this. They were expecting to battle and get back at them for everything the troops had witnessed in the Vietnam War. When they got to the village and found civilians, they were angry. Some things the tro... Please login to view comments from other users.
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