S2 Ep15: Tet - Part Two: The My Lai Massacre

S2 Ep15: Tet - Part Two: The My Lai Massacre

What role does the Tet Offensive play in the My Lai Massacre?

What circumstances in troop deployment and officer training influenced what happened?

Why were more than 500 civilians murdered by Charlie Company?

Time Period Covered December 1967 - March 1968

In this episode, Lachlan confronts the horrors that occurred in My Lai on the 16th of March 1968. He attempts to answer why more than 500 civilians were killed, what the context of these killings were, as well as the role that officers such as William Calley had in producing the My Lai Massacre.

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** Be advised of a mistake in the episode. Hugh Thompson did not receive the "Medal of Honour", but a US Army Soldier's Medal. I meant this as a generality but forgot there is a genuine "Congressional Medal of Honour". Apologies. **

Sources

The Peers Inquiry of the Massacre at My Lai 1970
Edward Miller The Vietnam War: A Documentary Reader
William Thomas Allison My Lai
The Vietnam War Geoffrey War and Ken Burns
The Vietnam War Mark Atwood Lawrence
Anatomy of US and South Korean Massacres In the Year of the Monkey Heonik Kwon

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