William Calley, officer convicted for his role in My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, dead at 80
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By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, which saw more than 300 unarmed Vietnamese civilians killed by US soldiers in one of the most notorious war crimes in American history, has died. He was 80.
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William Calley Jr., the only U.S. soldier convicted in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, has died. He was 80. The killings of 504 Vietnamese civilians by the platoon he
The My Lai massacre in 1968 was “the absolute low point in the history of the modern US military,” a Pulitzer Prize winner wrote. William Calley was a commanding officer at the scene.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, has died. He was 80. Calley died on April 28, according to his
Former Army Lt. William Calley Jr., 80, died of natural causes Sunday at a hospice center in Gainesville, Fla., decades after being convicted of leading the infamous My Lai Massacre.
William Calley, who during the Vietnam War led his U.S. Army platoon into the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai and carried out one of the worst war crimes in American military history, has died, according to media reports. He was 80.
By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, which saw more than 300 unarmed Vietnamese civilians killed by US soldiers in one of the most notorious war crimes in American history, has died. He was 80.
Former Army Lt. William Calley Jr., who died in April, was the only U.S. service member convicted for participating in what would be remembered as the 1968 My Lai Massacre, which was often referred to as "the most shocking incident of the Vietnam War."
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