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...early morning fog came the ground assault. Headlights ablaze, 14 huge T-54 tanks growled through one gate, and eight more rolled through another. When the North Vietnamese infantrymen followed five minutes later, the South Vietnamese were already in full flight. One group ran straight through their own minefield. Others grabbed at the skids of a helicopter that came to pick up the U.S. advisers; the overloaded chopper staggered to nearby Dak To, where it was forced to set down. (Six of the advisers and four crewmen died when another chopper that had come to pick them...
...Calley's superior officer, who commanded Charlie Company on its sweep into the South Vietnamese village, testified, as Calley had earlier, to the shock effects of combat. Like Calley, he recited a grisly story about the company's casualties when the men walked over a Viet Cong minefield 20 days before the massacre. One man hit by mine fragments, said Medina, "was split as if somebody had taken a cleaver right up from his crotch all the way to his chest cavity." Discussing the day of the massacre, Medina said: "For those of you who have been...
...Dark. At about 8:30 a.m. on March 16, the men of Charlie Company were lifted by helicopter toward My Lai. "I was definitely hyper," said Calley. The men feared most the sort of minefields that had previously decimated their unit. In a minefield, Calley said, "it's kind of like being in the dark, knowing there is a step there and afraid to walk. You almost have to force every foot down...
Sawada appeared willing to do anything for a story: hitch rides on helicopters going into the heart of battle, invite reprimands by darting through a minefield to get pictures of American troops. He got reprimands, but he also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for a picture of a Vietnamese mother shepherding her family to safety through a river. Newswriter Frank Frosch, also of U.P.I, resembled Sawada in many ways. Like the photographer, Frosch chose the tough way to cover news. During the recent riots in Augusta, Ga., Frosch was the only reporter able to produce an eyewitness account...
...aboard the bus were all wounded. Nor did the toll end there. Shortly afterward, five parents speeding to see their children in the hospital were injured when the truck carrying them overturned. An Israeli army officer scouting for the guerrillas lost a foot when he stumbled into a minefield...