The Living Rainforest: Vietnam War American Casualties

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Vietnam War American Casualties

Soldiers perished and categorized the deaths as follows. Military estimated that approximately 200000 to 250000 South Vietnamese perished in the Vietnam War.

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Of the 7877 officer casualties 7595 or 964 were white 147 or 18 were black.

Vietnam war american casualties. A low figure is 110357 killed in action while other figures range as many as 184000 or even as high as 250000 6. This series contains records of US. Although the records may not be complete the US.

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37202 Air Force 1740000 2586 1745 841 Hosp. Has the names listed in chronological order by date of loss. And Vietnam 19461954 2 killed see.

As the war stretched on. According to the last update in 2008 from the National Archives there were 58220 US. Yet in a time when the numbers of Americans killed in this war36000though far less than the Vietnamese losses have exceeded the dead in the Korean War when the nation continues week after week to be numbed by a three-digit statistic which is translated to direct anguish in hundreds of homes all over the country we must pause to look into the faces.

Casualties estimates of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ARVN casualties vary. Military officers and soldiers who died as a result of either hostile or non-hostile occurrence or who were missing in action or prisoners of war in the Southeast Asian combat area during the Vietnam War including casualties that occurred in Cambodia China Laos North Vietnam South Vietnam and Thailand. Vietnam War Protests By November 1967 the number of American troops in Vietnam was approaching 500000 and US.

Deaths Per 100000 Pop. These alphabetical indexes are for your convenience but do not represent the order of names on the Wall. All their names were honored on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington DC.

Numbers certainly do not tell the whole story - or all of them - but they certainly paint a picture of lives lost and families devastated. Based on 1970 US Census. These numbers are not official statistics and are for informational purposes only.

Vietnam War prior to 1964-US Casualties were Laos 2 killed in 1954. That was about 003 of the population at the time with an average 11 deaths each day. Ovnand become the first Americans killed in the American phase of the Vietnam War when guerrillas strike a.

Buis and Master Sgt. Archive of American Gold Star Casualties During the war years 1961-1975 there were 58209 recorded deaths among US Service Members. The number of soldiers under 20 years old who were killed in action is 11465.

24 or3 were Asian 7 or08 were Amer Indian and 104 13 were unidentified by race. The United States committed some 550000 troops to the Vietnam front at the height of the conflict suffered more than 58000 casualties and engaged in battle after battle with communist forces in the region until its withdrawal in 1973. The United States deployed over 25 million soldiers to the Vietnam War and lost 58220 of those soldiers.

Lists and Statistics Congressional Research Service 3 Casualties War or Conflict Branch of Service Number Serving Total Deaths Battle Deaths Other Deaths Wounds Not Mortala Care. Casualties had reached 15058 killed and 109527 wounded. An additional 303644 American soldiers were wounded during the war.

American War and Military Operations Casualties. America paid a terrible price for its involvement in the Vietnam War - nearly 60000 killed-in-action over 150000 wounded and some 1600 missing. 931 No Hospital Care.

United States armed forces. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. Memorial pages honoring Vietnam War casualties listed by their last names.

Military fatal casualties during the Vietnam War. 1645 MIA originally 2646 725-837 POW 660-721 freedescaped 65-116 died in captivity During the Vietnam War 30 of wounded service members died of. Casualties by US States of the Union.

By nearly every metric the Vietnam War was in the common sense of the word a war. 2518 Persian Gulf Waro. National Archives shows that 58220 US.

There were over 4 million civilian casualties on both sides during the war. Casualties as of 2 June 2013. Death by Casualties Type.

United States Armed Forces Casualties. See also Casualties of the Iraq War. 58286 KIA or non-combat deaths including the missing deaths in captivity 153303 WIA.

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