On what date was the massacre?
March 16th 1968
When did the US public discover the horrors?
Only after the war
How many people survived, who did this include and how did she live?
Only six survivors - a mother named Taun who “rested in a ditch and waited for them to leave”
What was the Vietcong response?
The Tet Offensive- Vietnamese New Years 1969, full scale guerrilla attack on the South
What places were predominantly targeted by the offensive?
Major cities such as Saigon
How many communist deaths occured ?
600,000
How many US soldiers dies?
4,000
How many civilians?
More than 15,000