Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A 2008 study by the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal) came up with a higher toll of 3,812,000 dead in Vietnam between 1955 and 2002. For the period of the Vietnam War the totals are 1,310,000 between 1955 and 1964, 1,700,000 between 1965–74 and 810,000 between 1975 and 1984. (The estimates for 1955–64 are much higher than other estimates).
ea. ^ Cold War – Korea and Vietnam and Middle East-additional US Casualties: North Korea {Cold War} 1959: 1968–69; 1976; 1984 killed 41; Wounded 5; 82 captured/released. [100] USS Liberty incident 1967 killed 34; Wounded 173 by Israeli armed forces; Vietnam War prior to 1964-US Casualties were Laos – 2 killed in 1954; and Vietnam 1946 ...
Vietnam War: 1.1–4.2 million [34] [35] [36] 1955–1975 North Vietnam and allies vs. South Vietnam and allies Indochina Nigerian Civil War: 3.04–4.1 million [37] [38] 1967–1970 Nigeria vs. Biafra: Nigeria Deluge: 3–4 milion [39] 1648–1666 Poland–Lithuania vs Swedish Empire and Russia: Eastern Europe French Wars of Religion: 2–4 ...
This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (November 2024) Vietnam War Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War in Asia Clockwise from top left: US Huey helicopters inserting South Vietnamese ARVN troops, 1970 North Vietnamese PAVN ...
Eighty Years' War: 14,000 9,500 Siege of Candia: 1648–1669 Cretan War: 149,739 149,739 First siege of Anandpur: 1700 Hill States-Sikh Wars 150,000+ 150,000+ Siege of Toulon: 1793 War of the First Coalition: 21,400 7,400 Siege of Mantua: 1796–1797 War of the First Coalition: 51,000 51,000 Siege of Genoa: 1800 War of the Second Coalition ...
This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of U.S. soldiers killed was higher than 1,000. The battles and campaigns that reached that number of deaths in the field are so far limited to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, and one campaign during the Vietnam War (the Tet Offensive from January 30 to September 23, 1968).
The killings shocked the U.S. and galvanized the anti-war movement. Initially charged in an Army court martial for 102 deaths, Calley was sentenced to life in prison in 1971 for the killing of 22 ...
The year was the most expensive in the Vietnam War with America spending US$77.4 billion (US$ 678 billion in 2025) on the war. The year also became the deadliest of the Vietnam War for America and its allies with 27,915 ARVN soldiers killed and the Americans suffering 16,592 killed compared to around two hundred thousand PAVN/VC killed.