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US Army footage from the operation showing US troops putting death cards in the mouths of dead VC Shanahan gave the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment , commanded by Lieutenant colonel Clinton E. Granger, the job of securing the Đức Phổ airfield, now renamed Bronco, and the road extending east to Razorback Beach ( 14°48′43″N 109 ...
During the Vietnam War, 30% of wounded service members died of their wounds. [92] Around 30–35% of American deaths in the war were non-combat or friendly fire deaths; the largest causes of death in the U.S. armed forces were small arms fire (31.8%), booby traps including mines and frags (27.4%), and aircraft crashes (14.7%). [93]
The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), officially the Vietnam People's Army (VPA; [11] Vietnamese: Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam, pronounced [kwən˧˧ ʔɗoj˧˨ʔ ɲən˧˧ zən˧˧ viət̚˧˨ʔ naːm˧˧], lit. ' Military of and for the people of Vietnam ' [12]), also recognized as the Vietnamese Army (Vietnamese: Quân đội Việt Nam ...
South Vietnam lost 1,018 aircraft and helicopters from January 1964 to September 1973. [6] 877 Republic of Vietnam aircraft were captured at war's end (1975) [7] Of the 2,750 [8] aircraft and helicopters received by South Vietnam, only about 308 survived (240 flew to Thailand or US warships [9] and 68 returned to the United States [10]).
South Vietnam, South China Sea: His F-100D crashed at sea offshore of Tuy Hoa Air Base while returning from a night bombing mission [28] Presumptive finding of death [3] March 7: Gates, Albert H: Captain: USMC: HMM-263: South Vietnam, South China Sea: Pilot of CH-46D #154808 that crashed at sea offshore of Danang [29] Killed in action, body not ...
Operation Wandering Soul was a propaganda campaign and psychological warfare effort exercised by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. It was an attempt to increase desertions and defections from Việt Cộng forces and weaken their morale. It was also to coerce the Việt Cộng forces into leaving and going home, weakening their numbers.
During the Vietnam War, the ace of spades was used as a tool of psychological warfare as it was common practice by US soldiers to leave the ace card on the bodies of killed Vietnamese. [12] They thought that the card's connections to French colonial rule of Vietnam and putative symbolism in Vietnamese tradition to mean death and ill-fortune ...
Presumptive finding of death [3] until 8 June 2015 when he was accounted for [16] January 9: Ramos, Rainier S: Warrant Officer: US Army: 7th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment: South Vietnam, Quảng Tín Province: Pilot of UH-1C gunship #66-00745 hit by enemy fire, crashed and burned [17] Presumptive finding of death [3] until 8 June 2015 when he ...