Newsday.com - Report: Army Reviews 1967 Vietnam Probe: "TOLEDO, Ohio -- The Army is reviewing a decades-old investigation of an elite unit of American soldiers that allegedly killed hundreds of innocent civilians during the Vietnam War, a newspaper reported Friday.
The decision came a week after a series of articles in The Blade reported the Army's 101st Airborne Division Tiger Force killed villagers -- including women, children and elderly farmers -- in Vietnam's central highland area over seven months in 1967.
The Tiger Force reportedly dropped grenades in bunkers and randomly fired on unarmed civilians during the killing spree, according to a 4 1/2-year military investigation that was closed in 1975, the Blade reported. No one was ever charged in the probe, which was initiated by a soldier outraged by the killings.
Military officials are expected to spend weeks going over evidence from the investigation, Army spokesman Joe Burlas said.
'Right now, there's a lot of work to be done,' he said. 'We're going through a 3-foot-tall pile of papers. They've made a dent but there's a long way to go.' "
The decision came a week after a series of articles in The Blade reported the Army's 101st Airborne Division Tiger Force killed villagers -- including women, children and elderly farmers -- in Vietnam's central highland area over seven months in 1967.
The Tiger Force reportedly dropped grenades in bunkers and randomly fired on unarmed civilians during the killing spree, according to a 4 1/2-year military investigation that was closed in 1975, the Blade reported. No one was ever charged in the probe, which was initiated by a soldier outraged by the killings.
Military officials are expected to spend weeks going over evidence from the investigation, Army spokesman Joe Burlas said.
'Right now, there's a lot of work to be done,' he said. 'We're going through a 3-foot-tall pile of papers. They've made a dent but there's a long way to go.' "
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