My lai massacre in pictures, U.S army photographers captured the events of the day, from the morning at LZ Dottie to the massacre itself.
Some of the photos of the operation were published in a U.S army newspaper without giving the impression that a massacre had taken place, other photos were secretly taken by R. Haeberle on his own camera, rather than the army issued one which was subject to censorship
an estimated 504 Vietnamese civilians were killed by U.S. army forces on March 16, 1968, in the hamlet of My Lai, during the Vietnam War