How did a US Army mission in Vietnam end with the massacre of up to 500 people?In this episode, Don is joined by Christopher Levesque to examine one of the most harrowing chapters of the war in Vietnam. They return to March 1968, when the men of Charlie Company undertook a 'search and destroy' mission in the Quang Ngai province village of Son My.Chris holds a joint appointment at the University of West Florida Libraries and the UWF Historic Trust. He is an archivist and teaches at the University of Western Florida, Pensacola, and the University of Charleston.Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. You can take part in our listener survey here.All music from Epidemic Sounds.American History Hit is a History Hit podcast.
Chapter 1: What was the My Lai Massacre?
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Hi everyone, it's Don. Just jumping in with a gentle warning, the episode which follows contains some very distressing content. November 1970, Fort Benning, Georgia. A convoy of military trucks moves by on the wet pavement. MPs patrol the curb. In the distance, the cadence of marching boots echoes through the air.
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Chapter 2: What were the circumstances leading to the My Lai Massacre?
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The blood is high, as you've said, this memorial service, all the feelings they have about everything, the urgency and the push that they've gotten from command. They arrive, and how do things go wrong? Because they go very wrong.
They go wrong pretty quickly. One of the challenges is that The Hamlet of My Lai, like many Vietnamese villages, was divided by hedgerows. And so as the line of infantry proceeds through the village, they become broken up into smaller and smaller groups where it's more difficult for them to be observed and controlled by their officers.
And so their typical process is going to be that as they move through a village and they take prisoners, they hold those villagers so that those villagers can be processed by an officer. Said either keep this one as a potential enemy prisoner of war or let them go and keep them secure in this other location away from any potential combat.
And one of the things that happens is that as they get divided up and they start to gather potential prisoners, they get bogged down. And Medina orders Callie and his other platoon leaders to get their men back online and to continue to push through the village. Are they taking fire in any way? They are not. They've received no fire.
They kill a farmer shortly after they land who is waving his arms at them from a distance. But other than that, not posing a threat. And so they haven't been fired on.
So the actions that they take, which will famously be told in trials and so forth, are unprovoked? That's correct. Okay.
Sometimes they think they're provoked, but there aren't any shots fired at them, and they only recover three old N1 Garand rifles. So these are World War II or Korean War era weapons that they recover.
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