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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Calley, the only U.S. soldier convicted for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, died in April this year at age 80.

William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the US soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military ...

During the melee, US Army pilot Hugh Thompson landed his helicopter between soldiers and civilians. With the help of his crew, Thompson gathered those he could and evacuated them to safety.

Helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson speaks with reporters at the Pentagon on Dec. 4, 1969, after testifying about the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam. AP Everybody's heard of the My Lai massacre ...

It seemed to me that the United States had no decisive plan for Vietnam, ... My Lai is that it was seen by Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr., ... had saved the world from fascism in World War II.