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The Vietnam War body count controversy centers on the counting of enemy dead by the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War (1955–1975). There are issues around killing and counting unarmed civilians ( non-combatants ) as enemy combatants , as well as inflating the number of actual enemy who were killed in action (KIA).
PAVN/VC military deaths. 444,000–666,000. Civilian deaths (North and South Vietnam) 405,000–627,000. Total deaths. 1,353,000. A 1995 demographic study in Population and Development Review calculated 791,000–1,141,000 war-related Vietnamese deaths, both soldiers and civilians, for all of Vietnam from 1965 to 1975.
The 1st Battalion 9th Marines (1/9) was an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps. Formed during World War I, it served until the mid-2000s when it was deactivated to make room for one of three light armor reconnaissance battalions. During the Vietnam War, 1/9 sustained an especially high casualty rate as they faced extraordinary ...
USMC: HMM-362: South Vietnam, Quảng Tín Province: Crewman on a UH-34D #147180 that crashed at sea in bad weather [143] Presumptive finding of death [3] November 22: Miller, Richard A: 1st Lieutenant: USMC: HMM-362: South Vietnam, Quảng Tín Province: Copilot of a UH-34D that crashed at sea in bad weather [144] Presumptive finding of death ...
Ralph H. Johnson. Ralph Henry Johnson (January 11, 1949 – March 5, 1968) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism in March 1968 during the Vietnam War. When a hand grenade was thrown into his fighting hole, he immediately covered it with his body—absorbing the full impact of the blast—sacrificing ...
Cam Ne Incident. The Da Nang area, with Cam Ne indicated in red. The Cam Ne incident was a Vietnam War incident in which U.S. Marines burned the huts of South Vietnamese civilians living in the village of Cam Ne in Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam. The incident became one of the top news stories in the United States about the war.
Thủy Bồ incident. The Thuy Bo incident was the killing of civilians by U.S. Marines from 31 January to 1 February 1967, during the Vietnam War in Thủy Bồ village (Vietnamese: [tʰwɪj˧ ɓow˦]) in Điện Bàn District, Quảng Nam Province 15 km southwest of Đà Nẵng, in an area close to the foothills of the Central Highlands and ...
Operation Union. Operation Union was a search and destroy mission in the Que Son Valley carried out by the 1st Marine Regiment from 21 April to 16 May 1967. The object of the operation was to engage the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 2nd Division.