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Bookmark or Share- Hugh Thompson: The Forgotten Hero of My Lai - Spec Ops MagazineHugh Thompson Jr. was a twenty-five-year-old helicopter pilot and Army warrants officer. On March 16, 1968, he was flying a mission in Vietnam and came across a large number of dead civilian bodies; and in pursuing surveillance, he discovered that those civilians had been killed, and the survivors were still under fire, by American forces.
- America250: Army Veteran Hugh Thompson Jr. - VA NewsThis week’s America250 salute is Army Veteran Hugh Thompson Jr., who saved Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai. He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart and Soldier’s Medal. Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. was born in 1943 in Atlanta. He was a descendant of the Cherokee Native Americans from his father’s side.
- The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson StoryHugh Clowers Thompson, Jr. (April 15, 1943 – January 6, 2006) was a United States Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. He is best known for his role in stopping the My Lai Massacre, in which a group of US Army soldiers tortured and killed several hundred unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mutilating their bodies after they had been murdered.
- Hugh Thompson Jr., The Army Major Who Stopped The My Lai MassacreOn March 16, 1968, a company of U.S. soldiers stormed into the Vietnamese village of Sơn Mỹ and began shooting. For hours, they raped, mutilated, and slaughtered innocent civilians until a helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson Jr. put his own life on the line to stop the massacre.
- Hugh Thompson Jr. - WikipediaHugh Clowers Thompson Jr. (April 15, 1943 – January 6, 2006) was a United States Army officer, serving as a warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division.
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