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Atrocities against civilians and prisoners by Army soldiers during the Vietnam War were more common than originally disclosed to the public, according to a Los Angeles Times review of recently unsealed government files. Some 9,000 pages of archives - the largest collection of documented war crimes in Vietnam - include sworn witness testimony, investigative files and status reports for top military brass that detail 320 wartime atrocities substantiated by the Army. Still, few soldiers were held accountable for the war crimes, according to the newspaper. The abuse was not restricted to one rogue Army division, but was committed by every...

History on Book TV A look at non-fiction history books. On Saturday, July 1 at 11:30 pm Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War Michael Sallah & Mitch Weiss Description: Pulitzer-Prize winners Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss discuss their book "Tiger Force." Tiger Force is an investigation into a reconnaissance platoon, created in 1965 to report air strikes and to kill the enemy in Vietnam.The authors tells stories of the killings that took place at the hands of the Tiger Force soldiers during the Vietnam War. According to the authors this was the longest series of atrocities committed...

- Three decades after testifying to Congress about Vietnam war crimes, Sen. John Kerry voiced support for an investigation of the longest-known series of atrocities by a U.S. fighting unit in Vietnam and what led the Army to conceal the case for decades. "I think the truth ought to (come) out," the Democratic presidential front-runner told The Toledo (Ohio) Blade after a speech at the University of Toledo. Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, became the second Democratic candidate to push for answers in the wake of the Blade's October series, "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths." The newspaper documented how a...

Interviews to Focus on Unit Accused of Vietnam Killings By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: February 16, 2004 TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 15 (AP) — Military investigators will interview former members of an elite Army platoon accused of killing unarmed Vietnamese civilians in 1967, according to a newspaper report. The newspaper, The Blade, first reported in October that the Army's 101st Airborne Division's Tiger Force killed unarmed civilians, including women, children and elderly farmers, for seven months in 1967. Tiger Force was created to spy on forces of North Vietnam in South Vietnam's central highlands. The interviews are "part of the review...

<p>Military investigators will interview former members of an elite U.S. Army platoon accused of killing unarmed Vietnamese civilians in 1967, according to a published report.</p> <p>The Blade of Toledo first reported in October that the Army's 101st Airborne Division Tiger Force killed civilians -- including women, children and elderly farmers -- over seven months in 1967. Tiger Force, a unit of 45 volunteers, was created to spy on forces of North Vietnam in South Vietnam's central highlands.</p>

TOLEDO, Ohio -- Military investigators will interview former members of an elite U.S. Army platoon accused of killing unarmed Vietnamese civilians in 1967, according to a published report. The Blade of Toledo first reported in October that the Army's 101st Airborne Division Tiger Force killed civilians - including women, children and elderly farmers - over seven months in 1967. Tiger Force, a unit of 45 volunteers, was created to spy on forces of North Vietnam in South Vietnam's central highlands. The interviews are "part of the review and assessment of the original investigation," Lt. Col. Kevin Curry, an Army spokesman,...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Army agents have spent weeks reviewing thousands of documents chronicling a series of atrocities committed during the Vietnam War by an elite Army platoon, but the worst war crimes by the unit may never be known.</p> <p>For a complete presentation of all four installments described below, including audio interviews, photographs and graphics, along with follow-up reports, visit the Toledo Blade's index to its series.</p>

The 101st Airborne Division's Tiger Force was among the most elite units in the Vietnam War, tasked with cleaning out the enemy in a string of villages in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. But according to an Army investigation, which the government kept secret for almost three decades, the mission turned into a seven-month-long mass murder.

At the height of the Vietnam War, civilians were butchered by an army unit and the carnage was covered up. But this was not My Lai. This bloody massacre has only come to light in the past week - and not one of America's elite corps of reporters can claim the credit. It was a huge scoop. Yet the newspaper that uncovered the atrocity was not the venerable New York Times or the Washington Post, still resting on its Watergate laurels. Nor was it the New Yorker, famed for its in-depth journalism. It was The Blade, a daily newspaper with...

An elite American military unit killed and mutilated hundreds of unarmed civilians, tortured prisoners and severed ears and scalps for souvenirs during the Vietnam war, according to a newspaper investigation. The unit, Tiger Force, was sent on a six-month spying operation in areas controlled by the North Vietnamese. Members of the unit have revealed details of a rampage that began in May 1967 in which they dropped grenades into bunkers where villagers, including women and children, were hiding.Details of the unit's activities surfaced after an eight-month investigation by an American newspaper, The Blade, in Toledo, Ohio, that interviewed all but...

The United States military has deployed five teams of 10 airborne snipers to defend Iraq's northern oil pipelines from acts of sabotage by forces loyal to ousted president Saddam Hussein. Sergeant Brian Stinson said final modifications were being made to Blackhawk UH-60 helicopters, before snipers from the elite Tiger Force could begin patrols along the crucial oil supply lines. "There is so much area to cover that it requires precision fire, we're on call for 24-hours a day and can be airborne within 30 minutes," he said. Protection of Iraq's northern pipelines, which stretch 500 kilometres to Turkey and almost...