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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Lieut. William Calley, notorious for My Lai massacre, dead at 80

The New York Times has Lieut. William L. Calley Jr.'s obituary here. He died on April 28. The 1973 decision of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals in United States v. Calley can be found here. Excerpt from the obituary:

Nearly  56 years after the killings of as many as 500 women, children and older men by Americans who attacked with automatic weapons, grenades and bayonets; raped girls and women; mutilated bodies; killed livestock, and burned the village, My Lai (pronounced Mee Lye) still reverberates as one of the worst outrages of a brutal and divisive war.

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