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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%). [93]
Pages in category "American military personnel killed in the Vietnam War" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam. [88] James E. Westheider wrote that "At the height of American involvement in 1968, for example, 543,000 American military personnel were stationed in Vietnam, but only 80,000 were considered combat troops."
The following is a list of wars caught by number of U.S. battle deaths suffered by military forces; deaths from disease and other non-battle causes are not included. Although the Confederate States of America did not consider itself part of the United States, and its forces were not part of the U.S. Army, its battle deaths are included with the ...
Kissinger, thought by critics to be a war criminal for the tens of thousands of deaths caused by America’s secret bombing of neutral Cambodia to flush out the North Vietnamese, is essentially ...
Pages in category "United States Army personnel killed in the Vietnam War" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total.
Geoffrey Wawro was invited to speak at LSU Shreveport about his newest book, The Vietnam War: A Military History. “On any given day there were 50 to 70,000 troops in combat. Those guys had a ...
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).