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For the period of the Vietnam War the totals are 1,310,000 between 1955 and 1964, 1,700,000 between 1965–74 and 810,000 between 1975 and 1984. (The estimates for 1955–64 are much higher than other estimates). The sum of those totals is 3,091,000 war deaths between 1955 and 1975. [5] Uppsala University in Sweden maintains the Armed Conflict ...
ea. ^ Cold War – Korea and Vietnam and Middle East-additional US Casualties: North Korea {Cold War} 1959: 1968–69; 1976; 1984 killed 41; Wounded 5; 82 captured/released. [100] USS Liberty incident 1967 killed 34; Wounded 173 by Israeli armed forces; Vietnam War prior to 1964-US Casualties were Laos – 2 killed in 1954; and Vietnam 1946 ...
Vietnam War: 1,300,000–4,300,000 1955–1975 South Vietnam and allies vs. North Vietnam and allies Vietnam [88] [89] [90] American casualties in the Vietnam War included 58,226 dead and 304,000 wounded. – Also known as the Second Indochina War - Includes deaths in Cambodia and Laos First Sudanese Civil War: 500,000+ 1955–1972
South Vietnam lost 1,018 aircraft and helicopters from January 1964 to September 1973. [6] 877 Republic of Vietnam aircraft were captured at war's end (1975) [7] Of the 2,750 [8] aircraft and helicopters received by South Vietnam, only about 308 survived (240 flew to Thailand or US warships [9] and 68 returned to the United States [10]).
This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (November 2024) Vietnam War Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War in Asia Clockwise from top left: US Huey helicopters inserting South Vietnamese ARVN troops, 1970 North Vietnamese PAVN ...
18 September – The Japanese cargo ship Junyō Maru was packed with 1,377 Dutch, 64 British and Australian, and 8 American [225] prisoners of war along with 4,200 Javanese slave labourers bound for work on a railway line being built in Sumatra when she was attacked and sunk by British submarine HMS Tradewind, whose commander, Lt. Cdr Lynch ...
May 29—For 10 months, through a global pandemic and the tribal cacophony of a U.S. election year, William Kuner's personal crusade to honor America's war dead has marched with military precision.
A war casualty is a military person who is killed, wounded, imprisoned, or missing as a result of war; or a non-military person killed or wounded (civilian casualties). The term casualty is sometimes confused with the term fatality (death).