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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%).
Cambodian Civil War dead: 275,000–310,000 ... the north had covertly sent 40,000 soldiers of its own People's Army of Vietnam ... and 58,220 US service members died.
Greek Civil War: 1944–1949 1 5 6 6 [57] Chinese Civil War: 1945–1950 14 150 164 51 215 [57] Berlin Blockade: 1948–1949 31 31 31 [58] Korean War: 1950–1953 33,686 2,835 36,574 103,284 139,858 7,564 See Note E below : Cold War with the Soviet Union: 1947–1991 32 32 12 44 126 [51] Cold War with China: 1950–1972 16 16 16 [51] Vietnam ...
A war casualty is a military person who is killed, wounded, imprisoned, or missing as a result of war; or a non-military person killed or wounded (civilian casualties). The term casualty is sometimes confused with the term fatality (death).
1. Millions of soldiers and civilians died. Death estimates for "The War to End All Wars" vary greatly by study. However, most estimates put the total number at around nine million combatants and ...
This compares with 26 years of age for those who participated in World War II. Soldiers served a one-year tour of duty. The average age of the U.S. military men who died in Vietnam was 22.8 years old. [60] The one-year tour of duty deprived units of experienced leadership. As one observer put it, "we were not in Vietnam for 10 years, but for ...
American soldiers killed 504 people on March 16, 1968, in Son My, a collection of hamlets between the central Vietnamese coast and a ridge of misty mountains, in an incident known in the West as ...
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, one campaign during the Vietnam War (the Tet Offensive from January 30 to September 23, 1968) and one campaign during the Iraq ...