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This category contains historical battles fought as part of the Vietnam War (1955–1975). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battles and operations of the Vietnam War .
This article is a list of US MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period 1961–1965. 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]
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 ...
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The March on the Pentagon, 21 October 1967, an anti-war demonstration organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. During the course of the war a large segment of Americans became opposed to U.S. involvement. In January 1967, only 32% of Americans thought the US had made a mistake in sending troops. [222]
The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, concerning the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action, persisted for many years after the war's conclusion. The costs of the war loom large in American popular consciousness; a 1990 poll showed that the public incorrectly believed that more Americans lost their lives in Vietnam than in World ...
While only five of the 241 featured photos were of those killed in the battle, many Americans had the perception that all of the photos featured in the magazine were casualties of the battle. [13] [14] The controversy over the conduct of the Battle of Hamburger Hill led to a reappraisal of US strategy in South Vietnam.
the first phase of secret B-52 bombing of eastern Cambodia; the start of a four-year bombing campaign that drew Cambodia into the Vietnam War: eastern Cambodia: Mar 18 – May 28, 1970: Operation Menu [11]: 13 US Strategic Air Command secret bombing of Cambodia: Cambodia: Mar 18 – Feb 28 1971: Operation Frederick Hill [1] [12]: 290