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In Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket", an American soldier indiscriminately guns down Vietnamese civilians from the helicopter. Did this kind of blatant killing of civilians happen in the war? Was this scene accurate?

by /u/10z20Luka in /r/AskHistorians

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