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'The Sunday Times Magazine article, 23 April 1989'. File containing issue of The Sunday Times Magazine 23 Apr 1989, which published articles about the My Lai massacre by Kevin Sim and Michael Bilton, titled 'My Lai, the horrifying story of a massacre and the people who can't forget it'. Also contains typescript copy of article 'My Lai: anatomy of a massacre', Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, and typescript copies of short biographical articles titled 'The killers' including Fred Widmer, Varnardo Simpson, Kenneth Hodges, 'The helicopter heroes' including Hugh Thompson and Lawrence Colburn, 'American eyewitnesses' including Harry Stanley, Michael Bernhardt and Robert Maples, 'The chaplain' Carl Creswell, 'The photographer' Ron Haeberle, 'The whistleblower' Ron Ridenhour, 'The chief prosecutor' Maj Gen Kenneth Hodgeson, and 'Vietnamese eyewitnesses' including Vo Thi Lien, Truong Muoi, Truong Thi Le, Sa Thi Quy, Pham Dung, Pham Thi Thuam, and Pham Thi Trinh.

Charlie Company general notes'. File of general information relating to members of C Company, 1st Bn 20th Inf, US Army, including copies of list of members with criminal record, 16 Mar 1968; newspaper article, 'Charlie Co.'s 1st day of horror', The Sunday News, 17 May 1970; US Army memoranda on the background of enlisted personnel in C Coy, 12 Jan 1970, and the phased training schedule for the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, 7 Dec 1967; researcher's typescript notes on personality of members of 2nd Platoon, C Coy [1989-1992]; Unit Roster for C Coy, 1st Bn 20th Inf, 11th Light Inf Bde, Americal Division, 18 Apr 1968; list of witnesses in the court martial of Capt Ernest L Medina, 26 Jan 1971; and resume of large scale operations conducted by US FW and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in Quang Ngai province, Vietnam, Jan-Mar 1968.

Chronologies'. File containing various chronological lists relating to US army operations in Vietnam, including chronologies of Charlie Company, 19 Dec 1966-15 Mar 1968; My Lai and US operations in Vietnam 1962-1968; extract of 1968-1971 section from Vietnam War Almanac, Harry G Summers Jr, 1985; activities of Brig Gen George H Young, Mar-Jun 1968; main events in Southeast Asia, 1945-1979; key events and Congressional notification of the Son My incident, 16 Mar 1968-8 Feb 1975; key events in United States V First Lt William L Calley, 16 Mar 1968-31 Jul 1974; extract of chronological list 1968-1974, from The My Lai massacre and its cover-up: Beyond the reach of Law? Joseph Goldstein, Burke Marshall, Jack Schwartz, (The Free Press, New York, 1976); and typescript chronology of events from 22 Dec 1969-31 Mar 1971.

Print outs of databases – various'. Print outs from electronic databases of information gathered by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, in researching the My Lai massacre, 16 Mar 1988, such as lists of names and addresses of individuals involved in events at My Lai and the later investigations, as well as lists of documents collected and notes on subject matter. Includes indexes to statements made to US Army Criminal Investigation Department, and My Lai research document files; General subject database for My Lai book; My Lai database names index, 10 Jul 1990; My Lai database – CID (Criminal Investigation Division) statements, documents index, general subject index, 10 Jul 1990; names index [1988]; My Lai project database, 1988; My Lai book subject database - alphabetical contents; My Lai project databases 1988.

Logs for Mar 16-18 1968, Task Force Barker, 11th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division, MACV'. File of photocopies of Daily Staff Journals relating to US Army operations in the My Lai area, including those from US Army Vietnam (USARV) Army Operations Centre (AOC), Long Binh, Republic of Vietnam (RVN), 16-17 Mar 1968; US Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) MACCOC3, Command Centre, 16-17,19 Mar 1968; Task Force Barker, Landing Zone (LZ) Dottie, 15-20 Mar 1968; Headquarters, 11th Light Infantry Brigade, Duc Pho, LZ Bronco, 14-18 Mar 1968; and Americal Division Tactical Operations Centre (TOC), Chu Lai, RVN, 16 Mar 1968.

Vietnamese Statements to CID'. File of photocopies of sworn statements of US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) investigators containing details of interviews with sixty one Vietnamese witnesses, men, women and children, who were eyewitnesses to events at My Lai on 16 Mar 1968, in which they describe the attack on the village by American soldiers, names of individuals and family members who were killed and of survivors, identify on a sketch map of the village, the locations their home, any bodies that they saw, sites of graves, and identify individuals in photographs taken during the operation. Witnesses include Do Ba, Nguyen Thi Bi, Do Cam, Phung Thi Chanh, Nguyen Thi Chi, Pham Can, Nguyen Thi Cuong, Phom Dat, Tran Dau, Pham Day, Nguyen Din, Nguyen Thi Em, Phong Hoa, Pham Hat, Nguyen Thi Hoa, Nguyen Thi Hoan, Tran Thi Huy, Nguyen Huyhn, Nguyen Khinh, Nguyen Khoa, Pham Ky, Troung Lac, Do Thi Lan, Pham Le, Troung Thi Le, Troung Thi Lieu, Pham Thi Lom (Lam), Nguyen Thi Luan, Do Mau, Nguyen Manh, Nguyen Thi Me (Buk), Nguyen Thi Meo, Pham Mieu, Truong Ngu, Do Thi Nhan, Do Thi Nhuc, Do Thi Phan, Truong Quy (Qui), Do Thi Sy, Dang Thi, Nguyen Tri, Nguyen Thu, Nguyen Thi Tai, Do Thi Tha, Nguyen Than, Nguyen Thang, Pham Thi Thi, Do Thiet, Nguyen Thi Ti, Do Thi Tien, Phuong Tieo, Nguyen Thi Tiet, Nguyen To (Chat), Pham Thi Tot, Phong Thi Trap, Nguyen Tri, Pham Thi Tro, Nguyen Tu, Buoi Tuong, Pham Thi Tuu, Phham Tuy (Ty), Phung Vo. Also includes memorandum containing key to photographs of Vietnamese nationals, 10 Jul 1970

CID Statements, 1st Platoon, C Company'. File of photocopies of statements collected by US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) from members of 1st Platoon, C Company, 1st Bn 20th Inf, US Army, who were witnesses to events at My Lai, 16 Mar 1968, when Vietnamese civilians were massacred by US forces. Includes statements from William Calvin Lloyd, Lenny Battallones Lagunuy (Aquilino), Sidney Kye, Dennis Irving Conti, Allen Joseph Boyce, Robert James Bergthold, Robert Martin Mauro, Robert E Maples, Robert James Lee, James Joseph Dursi, Isaiah Cowan, Bruce Umber Cox, Harry Stanley, Charles Wayne Hall, Elmer Glen Haywood, Roy Lee Augustus Wood, Herbert Louis Carter, David Mitchell, Paul David Meadlo, Charles Sledge, Gregory Thomas Olsen, Daniel Simone, and Ronald David Grezik.

CID Statements, 2nd Platoon, C Company' File of photocopies of statements collected by US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) from members of 2nd Platoon, C Company, 1st Bn 20th Inf, US Army, who were witnesses to events at My Lai, 16 Mar 1968, when Vietnamese civilians were massacred by US forces. Includes statements from Floyde Dale Wright, Richard Wayne Wyatt, Roy Fred Trevino, Fernando R Trevino, Varnado Simpson, Kenneth Schiel, Thomas Richard Partsch, Dean Fields Jr, James Michael McBreen Jr, Tommy Lee Moss, Tom Calvin Makey, John Richard Mower, Dennis Martin Bunning, Jay Allan Buchanon, Salvador LaMartina, Max Dean Hutson, Leonard Robert Gonzalez, George Arsenio Garza, Charles Edward Hutto, and Kenneth Larry Hodges.

CID Statements, 3rd Platoon, C Company' File of photocopies of statements collected by US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) from members of 3rd Platoon, C Company, 1st Bn /20th Inf, US Army, who were witnesses to events at My Lai, 16 Mar 1968, when Vietnamese civilians were massacred by US forces. Includes statements from Richard Wayne Pendleton, Stephen Tandall Glimpse, Charles Dean Gruver, Gary Michael Garfolo, Joe Grimes, Jeffrey Urban LaCross, Everette Lee Cayot, Fred William Dustin, Abel Flores Jr, Rickey C Neria, Gener Ralph Oliver Jr, Larry Owen Polston, Raymond McDonald, John Henry Smail, Robert William T'Souvas, and Charles Anthony West.

CID Statements, Medina's Command Group and non-C Company personnel'. File of photocopies of statements collected by US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) from members of Capt Ernest L Medina's Command Group, 16 Mar 1968, relating to reports of a massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai on that day. Includes statements from Nels August Parson Jr, Chief of Staff, American Division; Patrick M Trinkle, and William Clifton Riggs, variously Commanding Officers of A Company, 3rd Bn, 1st Inf; William Earl Watson Sr, member of Mortar Platoon, C Company, 1st Bn, 20th Inf; Michael Crouch Adcock, Hq Co, 3rd Inf, 1st Bn,11th Bde, Radio Telephone Operator to Col Henderson; James T Cooney, 174th Aviation Company, Col Henderson's helicopter pilot on 16 Mar 1968; Randolph Emil Sabre, James Allen Reutner, Jerry R Culverhouse, Henry Dalo Mott, Dan Richard Millians, Charles Hersley Mansell, Brian William Livingston, Jerry F Lesher, Daniel Eugene Hill, and Calvin Dale Hodde, pilots and crew of US Army helicopters; Cecil David Hall, Bde Communication Chief, 11th Light Inf Bde; John L Halliday, Commanding Officer, 123 Aviation Bn, Americal Division; Lenny Barrallones Lagunoy (Aquilino),Thomas John Kinch, Michael Arnold Bernhardt, Sgt Duong Minh, Sgt Nguyen Dinh Phu, Dennis Harvey Johnson, Nicholas Capezza, William R Kern, Roger Delano Murray, James Harold Flynn, John Hobart Paul, and Frederick Joseph Widmer, members of Capt Medina's command group within C Company, 1st Bn, 20th Inf, 11th Bde on 16 Mar 1968; Jerry LeMar Heming, and Calvin Louis Hakwins C Company, 26th Engineer Bn, demolition experts, Jay Alfred Roberts, Senior Correspondent, 31st Public Information Detachment, Louis Bernard Martin, Radio Telephone Operator, Roger Louis Alaux, Artillery Officer, all assigned to 1st Bn, 20th Inf, 11th Bde; Dale Manford Arcoren, Martin Edward Fagan, John Lewis Oliphent, Larry Edwin Waterstreet, Thomas John Kinch, David Benjamin Hein, Mortar Platoon, 1st Bn, 20th Inf, 11th Bde.

Press cuttings, 1988-1993'. Copies of newspaper articles relating to the publication of Four hours in My Lay, Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, Viking, New York, 1992; and other articles relating to the twentieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre, 1988, and alleged war crimes in Iraq during the Gulf War, [1990-1991]; Ronald Ridenhour's article titled 'Heroes at the massacre' Playboy Magazine, Mar 1993; and copy of 'My Lai, a 25 year perspective' in Under cover, No 2, Feb/Mar, 1993.

Letters and contemporary accounts of massacre'. Photocopies of extracts of letters and diaries of US servicemen relating to events at My Lai, Vietnam, on 16 Mar 1968, including copies of letters to Hugh Thompson in regarding reports of his rescue of Vietnamese civilians from My Lai, 1969-1970; extract of letter from Capt Brian Livingston to his wife, 16 Mar 1968, and Livingston's sworn statement to the Peers Inquiry, 26 Feb 1970; extract from Maj Fred Watke's letter to Mrs Watke, 16-18 Mar 1968; and extracts from diary of Thomas A Partsch, 15-18 Mar 1968, 29 Feb and 3 Mar 1968.

Reading matter, photocopies, (various)' Photocopied extracts of publications relating to US participation in the war in Vietnam, including America in Vietnam, Guenter Lewy (Oxford University Press, New York, 1978); The making of the President 1972, Theodore H White (Jonathan Cape, London, 1974); Home from the war, Robert Jay Lifton (Wildwood House, London, 1974); Kissinger, Marvin Kalb and Bernard Kalb (Hutchinson, London, 1974); The military half, an account of destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin, Jonathan Achell (Vintage Books, New York, 1968); War without fronts, the American experience in Vietnam, Thomas C Thayer (Westview Press, Boulder, 1985); Destroy of die, the true story of My Lai, Martin Gershen (Arlington House, New York, 1971); and Vietnam Inc, Philip Jones Griffiths (Collier Books, New York 1971).

Criminal investigation by US Army CID - Summaries of evidence'. Photocopies of sections from the US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) report on evidence gathered concerning the allegations of atrocities committed by US Army personnel at My Lai, Vietnam, [1969], and copy of the investigators statement 20 Jul 1970.

Miscellaneous papers'. Includes photocopies of photograph of topographical model of the My Lai area, and extracts from publications relating to the US Army operations in Vietnam, including Bureaucracy at War, US performance in the Vietnam conflict, Robert W Kome, Westview Press, Boulder Colorado, (1986); Vietnam War Almanac, Harry G Summers Jr, Facts on File, New York, (1985); On strategy, A critical analysis of the Vietnam war, Harry G Summers, (Novato, California, 1985); The lessons of Vietnam, W Scott Thompson and Donaldson D Frizzell (eds), Crane, Russak and Company, New York, (1977). Also contains photocopies of extracts of catalogues to archives containing collections relating to the Vietnam War, and Researching the Vietnam experience, Ronald H Spector, Analysis Branch, US Army Centre of Military History, Washington DC (1984).

'New York Times index, 1970-1975' Photocopies of extracts of indices of the New York Times, 1970-1975, relating to Vietnam, and US involvement in the Vietnam War.

III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF)' Photocopies of documents relating to Marine Command chronologies, including memoranda from Marine Division Headquarters, 18 Apr 1966 relating to 1st Marine Division Command Chronology, Mar 1966, and report of the operations of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force in Chu Lai area (Vietnam), named Task Force Oregon, Feb–Apr 1967.

1/20th Infantry 'Sykes Regulars' history'. Photocopy of 'Sykes Regulars', 20th Infantry Organisation Day 1967 booklet outlining programme of events and the history of the 20th infantry; and typescript history of the 20th Infantry describing its activities during 1967-1968.

11th Infantry Brigade (Light), 1. History, 2. Tactical SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for counter insurgency operations, 3. Interview transcript (1969) with Bde Cdr (Col Oran K Henderson), 4. Miscellaneous'. File includes photocopies of transcript of sworn statement of Col Oran K Henderson to Col Wilson, Inspector General's inquiry, during the investigation of the alleged destruction of a South Vietnamese village nicknamed 'Pinkville'; extracts of 11th Infantry Brigade (Light), Tactical SOP for Counterinsurgency Operations (Draft) n.d.; 11th Infantry Brigade Jungle Warriors, annual historical supplement to the 11th Infantry Brigade Unit history, 1 Jan –31 Dec 1968; 11th Inf Bde reports, memoranda and regulations, 1967; and organisation chart showing hierarchy of the 11th Inf Bde, 16 Mar 1968.