![In the My Lai massacre in March 1968, soldiers massacred hundreds of unarmed people in the Son Tinh District, South Vietnam, including children and monks. In the My Lai massacre in March 1968, soldiers massacred hundreds of unarmed people in the Son Tinh District, South Vietnam, including children and monks.](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2021/03/15/BTHOEFOBEBLOBQXAW3MCNHJ3LY.jpg?w=535)
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In the My Lai massacre in March 1968, soldiers massacred hundreds of unarmed people in the Son Tinh District, South Vietnam, including children and monks. William L. Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, has died in Gainesville, Florida. He was 80.
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