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This article is a list of US MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period from 1969–1971. In 1973, the United States listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the entire Vietnam War. By October 2022, 1,582 Americans remained unaccounted for, of which 1,004 were classified as further pursuit, 488 as non-recoverable and 90 as deferred. [1]
18 March to 28 May 1970. Operation Menu was the codename of a covert United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970. The supposed targets of these attacks were PAVN/VC sanctuaries and base areas used for resupply, training, and resting between ...
North Vietnam withdrew its diplomats from Cambodia. [3]: 331 26 March. North Vietnam refused an offer by South Vietnam for the release and repatriation of 343 wounded or ill prisoners of war, declaring that there were no members of the PAVN in the south. The North Vietnamese representatives at the Paris Peace Talks asserted that the captives ...
North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin: Crewman on C-1A #146054 that ditched on launch [24] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] January 16: Thompson, William J: Captain: US Navy: USS Kitty Hawk: North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin: Pilot of C-1A #146054 that ditched on launch [25] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] January 16: Gee, Paul S: 1st ...
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]
At the My Lai museum outside Da Nang in Vietnam — formally known as the Son My War Remnant Site — a marble plaque lists 504 victims by name. Of the 273 women killed, 17 were pregnant.
North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin: Lost overboard [52] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] May 3: McDonald, Joseph W: 1st Lieutenant: USMC: VMA-224, USS Coral Sea: Operation Freedom Train: North Vietnam, Quảng Bình Province: Pilot of an A-6A #155709 shot down. The remains of the weapons system operator Captain David B. Williams were ...
The accords were broken almost immediately and fighting continued until the 1975 spring offensive and fall of Saigon to the PAVN, marking the war's end. North and South Vietnam were reunified in 1976. The war exacted an enormous human cost: estimates of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed range from 970,000 to 3 million.