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The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of African-American soldiers in the US military up to that point. [2] Though comprising 11% of the US population in 1967, African Americans were 16.3% of all draftees. [3] During the period of the Vietnam War, well over half of African American draft registrants were found ineligible for military ...
On July 23, 1968, to protest the beating of a Black prisoner, black and white soldiers seized control of the Fort Bragg stockade, holding it for over two days. [3]: 70–71 In the summer of 1968 two of the largest prison rebellions of the war took place in Vietnam, both led by Black soldiers.
The NVVRS study found that Hispanic and Black male Vietnam vets showed higher rates of PTSD (28% among Hispanic vets, 21% among Black vets) than their white counterparts (14%), which reaffirmed ...
U.S. military involvement in Vietnam began in 1950 with the support of French Indochina against communist Chinese forces. Military involvement and opposition escalated after the Congressional authorization of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in August 1964, with U.S. ground troops arriving in Vietnam on March 8, 1965.
A 1995 demographic study in Population and Development Review calculated 791,000–1,141,000 war-related Vietnamese deaths, both soldiers and civilians, for all of Vietnam from 1965 to 1975. The study came up with a most likely Vietnamese death toll of 882,000, which included 655,000 adult males (above 15 years of age), 143,000 adult females ...
The death count for U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War exceeded 58,000 before the government severed its involvement in 1973. A total of 395 fallen soldiers were from New Mexico, according to the ...
As Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods' hits Netflix, black Vietnam veterans discuss their experiences serving in 'a white man's war'
333rd Field Artillery Battalion African-Americans captured during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944. 12th Armored Division soldier with German prisoners of war, April 1945. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American pilots in United States military history; they flew with distinction during World War II.