Some of the younger women and girls were raped and then murdered. Many were rounded up in small groups and shot, others were flung into a drainage ditch at one edge of the hamlet and shot, and many more were shot at random in or near their homes. During the next few hours, the civilians were murdered. ![]() ![]() A hundred G.I.s and officers stormed the hamlet in military-textbook style, advancing by platoons the troops expected to engage the Vietcong Local Force 48th Battalion-one of the enemy’s most successful units-but instead they found women, children, and old men, many of them still cooking their breakfast rice over outdoor fires. ![]() Early on March 16, 1968, a company of soldiers in the United States Army’s Americal Division were dropped in by helicopter for an assault against a hamlet known as My Lai 4, in the bitterly contested province of Quang Ngai, on the northeastern coast of South Vietnam.
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