Around 11:30 on March 16, 1968, Captain Ernest Medina ordered a ceasefire of US troops under his command in the South Vietnamese village of My Lai 4. After nearly four hours of gunfire, there was ...

William L. Calley Jr., a junior Army officer who became the only person convicted in connection with the My Lai Massacre of 1968, when U.S. soldiers slaughtered hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese ...

After advanced training at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, a group of soldiers known as Charlie Company, departs for Vietnam's Quang Ngai province. Charlie Company, First Battalion, 20th Infantry ...

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His books on that Vietnam episode drew acclaim, and he was an Edgar Award-winning author of nonfiction books about crime in its many manifestations. By Sam Roberts Richard Hammer, an award-winning ...

This April 23, 1971, photo of Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was taken during his court-martial at Fort Benning, Georgia, in connection with the massacre of civilians at the village of My Lai in South ...