THE WAR My Lai(Cont'd) The U.S. Army last week filed charges against two more members of an America! Division company that attacked the South Vietnamese village of My Lai on March 16, 1968. Sergeant Charles E. Hutto, 21, of Tallulah, La., was charged with premeditated murder, rape and assault with intent to commit murder. Private Gerald A. Smith, 22, of Chicago, was accused of premeditated murder and indecent assault on a Vietnamese female. The action is preliminary to the possible convening of a court-martial for Hutto, now stationed at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash., and for...
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