William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, which saw more than 300 unarmed Vietnamese civilians killed by US soldiers in one of the most notorious ...

A display at the My Lai Memorial Site in My Lai village, Vietnam. (Adam Jones/Flickr) On March 16, 1968, a U.S. Army platoon was sent on a search and destroy mission to a South Vietnamese village ...

William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, which saw more than 300 unarmed Vietnamese civilians killed by US soldiers in one of the most notorious ...

Before the massacre, My Lai was a poor hamlet in Quang Ngai province, whose low, marshy coastal plains had been—and still are—a base for the Viet Cong 48th Battalion.

"The My Lai Tapes" are a record not only of atrocity writ large but also of heroism. They are a record of how war can bring out not only the worst but also the best in people. Above all they are a ...

Truong Thi Tri, 76, visits the memorial museum for victims of the My Lai massacre in Son My village in Quang Ngai province on March 15, 2018. AFP via Getty Images.

And while My Lai was the most notorious massacre in modern U.S. military history, it was not an aberration: Estimates of civilians killed during the U.S. ground war in Vietnam from 1965 to 1973 ...

The massacre at My Lai was the subject of books, films and documentaries. Mr. Calley gave his version in “Lieutenant Calley: His Own Story” (1971, with John Sack).

And while My Lai was the most notorious massacre in modern U.S. military history, it was not an aberration: Estimates of civilians killed during the U.S. ground war in Vietnam from 1965 to 1973 ...

In March 1968, U.S. soldiers entered the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War - and by the end of the day, hundreds of civilians lay dead. Women, children, and the elderly were massacred in ...

The strawberry ice cream for sale by the ticket booth seemed out of place at the museum to the My Lai massacre, one of America’s most ghastly crimes of war. The parking lot held a single car.