MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hugh Thompson Jr.

1943 - 2006

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Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. (April 15, 1943 – January 6, 2006) was a United States Army officer, serving as a warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division. He is credited with ending the My Lai massacre of the South Vietnamese village known as Sơn Mỹ on March 16, 1968, alongside Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn. During the massacre, Thompson and his Hiller OH-23 Raven crew, Andreotta and Colburn, stopped many killings by threatening and blocking American officers and enlisted soldiers of Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugh Thompson Jr. is the 484th most popular military personnel (up from 1,457th in 2019), the 1,681st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,298th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hugh Thompson Jr. ranks 484 out of 2,058Before him are Gan Ning, Yamagata Aritomo, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Lazare Hoche, Matthäus Hetzenauer, and Charles Leclerc. After him are Herbert Gille, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Bronislav Kaminski, Robert Anderson, Karl von Bülow, and Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Hugh Thompson Jr. ranks 100Before him are Piet Keizer, Roy Andersson, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Ken Thompson, Colin Baker, and Jean-Claude Killy. After him are Superstar Billy Graham, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, Thomas J. Sargent, René Préval, Lorenzo Sanz, and Richard S. Hamilton. Among people deceased in 2006, Hugh Thompson Jr. ranks 58Before him are P. W. Botha, Alexander Litvinenko, James Van Allen, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prince George William of Hanover, and Murray Bookchin. After him are Ta Mok, Mariska Veres, Glenn Ford, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, Jack Warden, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hugh Thompson Jr. ranks 1,681 out of 20,380Before him are Michael Stuart Brown (1941), George Read (1733), Dean Reed (1938), Chris Columbus (1958), Anne Rice (1941), and Loie Fuller (1862). After him are Eva Marie Saint (1924), Mark Harmon (1951), Donna Leon (1942), Tony Shalhoub (1953), Sacagawea (1780), and Sonny Boy Williamson II (1912).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Hugh Thompson Jr. ranks 27Before him are William D. Leahy (1875), Matthew C. Perry (1794), John J. Pershing (1860), Mark Milley (1958), Albert Pike (1809), and Carl Spaatz (1891). After him are Robert Anderson (1805), Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845), William Tecumseh Sherman (1820), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), William Westmoreland (1914), and Creighton Abrams (1914).