To the editor: We can still do more to thank Hugh Thompson, the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who prevented even more murders of Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers in My Lai 50 years ago ...

Hugh Thompson Jnr, a former US military helicopter pilot who helped stop one of the most infamous massacres of the Vietnam War has died, aged 62. Mr Thompson and his crew came upon US troops killing ...

Everybody’s heard of the My Lai massacre — March 16, 1968, 50 years ago today — but not many know about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot.

One of the most horrible events of the Vietnam War took place 50 years ago this week. The story of Hugh Thompson, Jr., the American soldier who tried to stop the My Lai Massacre, has been made ...

When I learned that Hugh Thompson Jr., age 62, had died (Obituaries, Jan. 8), I wept because a real hero was gone. For those clueless about his identity, he is the U.S. Army officer personally resp… ...

An American soldier honored for protecting Vietnamese civilians from U.S. troops in the infamous My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war has died. Hugh Thompson was 62. He succumbed to cancer ...

Now, meet an American hero who says he felt the same way more than 30 years ago in a different American war: Vietnam. Hugh Thompson was a helicopter pilot in 1968, on a day American soldiers ...

Doxey served as a corporal in the Korean War and is a member of the San Diego chapter of Veterans for Peace. He lives in San Diego. Most Americans have probably never heard of Hugh Thompson, but ...

Larry Colburn, a helicopter gunner serving with Hugh Thompson in the Vietnam War; March 16, 1968, helped rescue residents of the Vietnamese village of My Lai, as U.S. troops gunned down civilians ...