Pinkville

…Charlie Company was acting on the orders of Task Force Barker, which had been charged with clearing out the Viet Cong soldiers who were supposedly hiding in a civilian-heavy area of South Vietnam called Pinkville.…

…Well, because Colonel Henderson gave no guidelines, there was no such thing as an innocent civilian in Pinkville as far as the Army was concerned.…

…Now, regarding the task force that was created to clear out Pinkville, Colonel Henderson created it to find and kill the Viet Cong amongst civilians, but he did not give any guidelines or any structure on how GIs should go about piling up the bodies.…