Vietnam Veterans are less likely to be in prison — only one-half of one percent of Vietnam Veterans have been jailed for crimes. As of April 14, , there are 1, Americans still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War across Vietnam 1, , Laos , Cambodia 49 , and China 7. The average age of the 58, killed in Vietnam was Event date is used instead of declared dead date for some of those who were listed as missing in action.
Fact : Mortality studies show that 9, is a better estimate. After that initial post-service period, Vietnam veterans were no more likely to die from suicide than non-Vietnam veterans. Sociologists Charles C. Black fatalities amounted to 12 percent of all Americans killed in Southeast Asia, a figure proportional to the number of blacks in the U. Fact : Servicemen who went to Vietnam from well-to-do areas had a slightly elevated risk of dying because they were more likely to be pilots or infantry officers.
Vietnam Veterans were the best educated forces our nation had ever sent into combat. None of the enlisted grades have an average age of less than The average man who fought in World War II was 26 years of age.
Fact : The American military was not defeated in Vietnam. The American military did not lose a battle of any consequence. From a military standpoint, it was almost an unprecedented performance. Fact : The domino theory was accurate. Without that commitment, Communism would have swept all the way to the Malacca Straits that is south of Singapore and of great strategic importance to the free world.
If you ask people who live in these countries that won the war in Vietnam, they have a different opinion from the American news media. The Vietnam War was the turning point for Communism. The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about days of combat in one year thanks to the mobility of the helicopter. One out of every 10 Americans who served in Vietnam was a casualty. Although the percent that died is similar to other wars, amputations or crippling wounds were percent higher than in World War II.
Over , patients were airlifted nearly half were American. The average time lapse between wounding to hospitalization was less than one hour. As a result, less than one percent of all Americans wounded, who survived the first 24 hours, died. The helicopter provided unprecedented mobility. Without the helicopter it would have taken three times as many troops to secure the mile border with Cambodia and Laos the politicians thought the Geneva Conventions of and the Geneva Accords or would secure the border.
The Vietnamese pilot who dropped the napalm in error is currently living in the United States. News media have reported tha an American commander ordered the air strike that burned Kim Phuc. These tables are for informational purposes and do not answer all questions of a statistical nature regarding U. Note that AAD can also be used to query the Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the DCAS for more complex Vietnam War casualty statistics than what are provided on this page, such as the number of casualties by race for a specific home state of record.
Alternatively to the download option, we can provide reproduction copies of the Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File on a cost-recovery basis upon request.
Information regarding the ordering of electronic records is provided online on our Ordering Information page. Note that State Lists of Fatal Casualties of the Vietnam War sorted alphabetically by the last name of casualty are available online at www. The coronavirus pandemic has been described as an invisible war, but the only comparable figures come from conflicts long in our rearview mirror. On Tuesday, less than three months later, the death toll has surpassed the number of U. On April 11, the United States surpassed Italy to set a grim record: highest confirmed coronavirus death toll in the world.
Now, there are over a million cases and 58, deaths—a third of the global caseload and a quarter of total deaths. An estimated 47, American soldiers were killed in battle during the Vietnam War, which spanned from to An additional 10, died in the theater of war, but out of battle, making a total of 58, deaths. Conflict casualty statistics differentiate between soldiers and civilians, and between deaths in the theater of war and outside it.
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