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On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American troops from three platoons of Charlie Company moved into several hamlets located in the Boy Tinh area of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known as "Pinkville" due to advanced of Vietcong infiltration. The troops, many still teenagers who had been in the united states for 90 days, were on a "search and ruin" objective. Three hours after the GIs moved into the hamlets, more than 500 unarmed villagers place dead, killed in cold bloodstream. The atrocity got its name from one of the hamlets, known by the People in the usa as My Lai Four. Armed service authorities attemptedto suppress the news of My Lai until some who had been there, specifically a helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson and a door gunner named Lawrence Colburn, spoke up about what that they had seen. The state lines was that the villagers have been killed by artillery and gunship fire rather than by small arms. That lines soon started out to fray. Lieutenant William Calley, one of the platoon leaders, admitted to firing the villagers but insisted that he had acted upon purchases. An exposé of the massacre and cover-up by journalist Seymour Hersh incited international outrage, and Congressional and US Army inquiries began.
