US Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr in South Vietnam, 1968
Hugh Thompson Jr. in South Vietnam, 1968.
In 1968, a unit of US soldiers raped and murdered an estimated 500 Vietnamese civilians and burned their homes. Hugh Thompson and his flight crew stopped the massacre by blocking American soldiers and threatening to kill them, saving countless lives.
Source US National Archives and Records Administration
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