From the moment he landed back at his base after taking Do Ba to hospital, at around 11am, Hugh Thompson and his crew began reporting the atrocities they had seen.
They started with their section leader and went all the way up the chain of command to Colonel Oran Henderson, the man in charge of everything and Colonel Frank Barker’s boss. Col. Henderson would later deny to the Peers Inquiry that he had been told any of this by Hugh Thompson (below).