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The number of US military personnel in Vietnam jumped from 23,300 in 1965 to 465,600 by the end of 1967. Between October 1966 and June 1969, 246,000 soldiers were recruited through Project 100,000, of whom 41% were black; black people only made up about 11% of the population of the US. [ 102 ]
Vietnam War prior to 1964-US Casualties were Laos – 2 killed in 1954; and Vietnam 1946–1954 ... [Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defense of the American Union ...
Meinhard, Robert W (July 1991). "The First Minnesota at Gettysburg : no soldiers ever displayed grander heroism". Gettysburg Magazine. 5: 79– 88. OCLC 32538531. Murray, Stuart (2004). Atlas of American Military History. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9781438130255. - Total pages: 257; Nelson, Peter (2009).
The U.S. Department of Defense announced that the death toll for American soldiers in the war had exceeded the 32,629 who had died in the Korean War, based on 312 additional deaths during the week from March 22 to March 28 to bring the toll to 33,641.
The plan to withdraw 1,000 soldiers became "an accounting exercise" in which the replacement of personnel was slowed down to reduce temporarily the number of American military personnel in South Vietnam. Of the combat troops, only one platoon (about 50 men) of Marines was to be withdrawn. [6]: 30 OPLAN-63 was discussed at the meeting. [18]
October 15, 1969 - Hundreds of thousands of people attend mass protests across the United States for the United States to withdraw from the Vietnam War. November 15, 1969 - A second, larger protest takes place in Washington D.C., with an estimated 500,000 people. December 1, 1969 - The first draft lottery since 1942 is held.
Vietnam War: 1.1–4.2 million [34] [35] [36] 1955–1975 North Vietnam and allies vs. South Vietnam and allies Indochina Nigerian Civil War: 3.04–4.1 million [37] [38] 1967–1970 Nigeria vs. Biafra: Nigeria Deluge: 3–4 milion [39] 1648–1666 Poland–Lithuania vs Swedish Empire and Russia: Eastern Europe French Wars of Religion: 2–4 ...
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, and one campaign during the Vietnam War (the Tet Offensive from January 30 to September 23, 1968).