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incidents where soldiers planted weapons on murdered Vietnamese villagers [7] an incident where a young mother was drugged, raped, and then executed [2]: 361–2, 377–8 an incident where a soldier killed a baby and cut off the baby's head after the baby's mother was killed [2]: 360, 363–4, 372–3
Vietnam's government claimed that 400,000 people were killed or maimed as a result of after effects, and that 500,000 children were born with birth defects. [ 32 ] and studies have shown higher rates of casualties, health effects, and next-generation birth defects in Vietnamese peoples.
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 [A 1] – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies.
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 ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
People's Army of Vietnam: Shelling of Cai Lay schoolyard: August 30, 1973 Cai Lậy District, Định Tường province: 32 killed Viet Cong: Re-education camps [8] 1945–1987 North Vietnam. South Vietnam. 26,000–232,000 Communist government of Vietnam (165,200 killed) Government of South Vietnam (65,000 killed) Tân Lập massacre [9 ...
During the next few weeks, 2,545 Vietnamese children would be flown out of the country of which 1,945 would come to the United States. 51 percent of the children were under 2 years old. 451 of the children were racially mixed, presumably the children of American and other soldiers who had been stationed in Vietnam.
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 ...