May 6/ Song Ve Valley •George Hatten
mutilates dead Vietnamese.
May 8/ near Duc Pho •After capturing
and torturing a prisoner, soldiers order
him to run and fatally shoot him.
June/ Song Ve Valley •Sgt. Terrance
Kerrigan executes a prisoner.
June/ near Duc Pho •Spec. Kenneth
Green tortures and kills a bound prisoner.
June/ Song Ve Valley •Soldiers kill an
elderly man and place a grenade on his
body to disguise him as an enemy.
June-July/ near Duc Pho •Pvt. Sam
Ybarra and Spec. Kenneth Green
capture, kill, and scalp an enemy soldier.
June-July/ near Duc Pho •Pvt. Sam
Ybarra kills and cuts off the ears of an
unarmed 15-year-old boy.
July/ near Duc Pho •Losing a bet that
he can knock out a prisoner with one
punch, Sgt. Robin Varney and two others
kill the prisoner with a bayonet.
July/ Song Ve Valley •Pvt. Sam Ybarra
and Spec. Kenneth Green kill a prisoner
instead of evacuating him.
July 18/ Song Ve Valley •Sgt. William
Doyle admits to killing a wounded Viet Cong
fighter after the prisoner asks for water.
July 23/ Song Ve Valley •Sgt. Harold
Trout clubs Dao Hue, an elderly, unarmed
carpenter, with his rifle and Lt. James
Hawkins shoots Dao Hue in the face.
July 24/ Song Ve Valley •An unarmed
man is wounded while approaching the
unit's night position. Sgt. Harold Trout
fatally shoots the man.
July 27/ Song Ve Valley •Soldiers execute
two prisoners on the order of an officer.
July 28/ Song Ve Valley •The platoon
opens fire on 10 elderly, unarmed farmers,
killing four. Others are injured.
July 28/ Song Ve Valley •Soldiers stop
a 12-year-old boy, Vo Tai Can, leading
two unarmed, partially blind men. The
boy is evacuated, but the soldiers execute
the men.
Early August/ Song Ve Valley •Lt.
James Hawkins orders troops to fire on
two unarmed, elderly women approaching
camp. One woman is injured.
August/ near Chu Lai •Unit members
kill suspected Viet Cong fighter and then
find the man's elderly father. Pvt. James
Cogan wounds the father before another
platoon member kills him.
August/ near Chu Lai •Sgt. William
Doyle shoots an unarmed teenager in
the back after ordering him to leave.
Sergeant Doyle also shoots a North
Vietnamese prisoner assigned to the unit
as an interpreter.
August/ near Chu Lai •Soldiers drop
grenades into three underground bunkers
filled with Vietnamese men, women, and
children.
August/ near Tam Ky •Sgt. William
Doyle shoots a farmer in the forearm,
then orders troops to kill the man as he
begs for his life. The man is executed.
Aug. 21/ near Chu Lai •Soldiers tie up
and torture a prisoner and tell him to run.
He is fatally shot as he runs away.
Late August-September/ between Tam
Ky and Chu Lai •Pvt. Sam Ybarra and
Spec. Kenneth Green sexually assault a
13-year-old girl before killing her.
November/ near Chu Lai •After
searching a village for weapons and
finding none, exiting soldiers come under
fire from a distant hillside. They return
fire, and then turn their guns on the
village, killing six civilians.
November/ location unknown •Pvt.
Sam Ybarra decapitates an infant in a
village hut.
Nov. 11 - Nov. 21, Quang Nam province
Tiger Force radio logs list 49 "Viet Cong"
killed, but in 46 deaths no weapons are
seized. Former platoon members now
say that civilians were killed and radio
log information was fabricated.
Unknown date/ Chu Lai •Sgt. James
Barnett executes a young mother on the
order of Sgt. Harold Trout.
September to November/ unknown
location •Pvt. John Colligan shoots an
unarmed, elderly Vietnamese man to test
a present he had recieved — a 38-caliber
handgun.
September to November/ near Tam Ky
•A soldier beheads one elderly man and
medic Barry Bowman fatally shoots a
wounded man in the same village.



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