About the series/ The Blade's team
The Blade's investigation began after the newspaper obtained 22 pages of classified Army records detailing atrocities by Tiger Force.

The records of the Army's Criminal Investigation Command were just the start.

Reporters reviewed volumes of research on the Vietnam War, finding no mention of the Army's investigation of the platoon's atrocities.

They inspected thousands of declassified records of the case from the National Archives in suburban Washington and obtained hundreds of additional classified documents of the case. They also interviewed dozens of former Tiger Force soldiers.

The Blade sent reporters Michael D. Sallah and Mitch Weiss, as well as photographer Andy Morrison, to the Central Highlands of Vietnam, where they found witnesses to the atrocities.

Reporter Joe Mahr joined the team as the newspaper pieced together a story the U.S. Army never wanted told.