My Lai Pilot Hugh Thompson Hugh Thompson Jr., a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot honored for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during the My Lai massacre, has died at age 62.

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. When he arrived ...

It's not every day that a former U.S. Army combat pilot is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but Hugh Thompson is a special case: On March 16, 1968, Thompson risked his life by swooping his ...

The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of 347Ð504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, ... Thompson, then a 24-year-old Army helicopter pilot, ...

Larry Colburn was a gunner in Hugh Thompson's helicopter on March 16, 1968 at My Lai, Vietnam. ' ... and I almost ended up in the pilot's lap. He was sitting directly to my left.

He was the American helicopter pilot who — with crew chief, Glenn Andreotta, and a helicopter gunner, Lawrence Colburn — was flying an observation pattern over My Lai. The day had started out ...

The carnage at My Lai stopped only after helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson looked down and saw U.S. soldiers picking off people in the body-strewn ditch and elsewhere.

My Lai stood out because of the shocking one-day death toll, ... Investigations into the massacre and allegations of a Pentagon coverup were launched after a complaint by a helicopter pilot, ...

On March 16, 1968, US forces were ordered to attack the village of My Lai, ... The story instantly gained public attention and was reinforced by helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr., ...

My Lai stood out because of the shocking one-day death toll, ... Investigations into the massacre and allegations of a Pentagon coverup were launched after a complaint by a helicopter pilot, ...