"This man and two little boys popped up from nowhere," says Haeberle. "The GIs I was with opened up, then moved in close to finish them."
With bodies and burning huts all around them troops had accosted the young 13-year-old girl seen here trying to button her top. Another woman tries to hold back the girl's distraught mother. When the troops noticed Haeberle, the photographer, they stopped and turned away as if everything was normal.
"Then a soldier asked, 'Well, what'll we do with 'em?'"
"Kill 'em," another answered."
"I heard an M60 go off," says Roberts, "a light machine gun, and when we turned back around, all of them and the kids with them were dead."
"Just outside the village," said Roberts, "there was this big pile of bodies. This really tiny little kid -- he had only a shirt on, nothing else -- he came over to the pile and held the hand of one of the dead. One of the GIs behind me dropped into a kneeling position, 30 meters from this kid, and killed him with a single shot."
THANK YOU GI JOE!