Although not generally reported to the men in the field by name, high ranking US officers believed that some NVA generals may have been killed during B-52 strikes. General Giap, one of the few NVA generals fairly common to most US servicemen, due to his reputation during the French War, as well as the siege at the Marine Corps base at Khe Sanh; definitely survived the war & definitely would have been reported as killed...if he had been.
The enemy was hard to find in the jungles of South Vietnam. The answer is jungles.
If you are a Briton you are probably referring to the medal, The Victoria Cross which is the highest military award offered with in the military. Otherwise you're referring to The Viet Cong which made up the enemy during The Vietnam War.
About 12 percent.
Keep in mind, that statistics continue to be updated: 8 US military female personnel were killed in Vietnam. One 1st Lieutenant Nurse was killed when enemy rockets struck her building. One was killed while a passenger on board a helicopter when it accidently crashed. One was killed, while riding as a passenger in a jeep, which accidently crashed. Five were killed, during Operation Baby Lift; the evacuation of South Vietnam, in 1975. The largest US Air Force transport at that time, the C-5 Galexy, had filled up with women & children evacuee's. It crashed during take off, killing most people aboard.
It is VERY common for the highest leadership to NOT know what's going on at the very bottom level of operations. This is true everywhere, even in civilian industry. This is why, very often, VIP's (Very Important Person) would fly into a post-battlefield to get an assessment, a US high ranking officer would go up to meet the VIP and the VIP (usually an experienced one) would by pass the officer and go to one of the common grunts to speak with him. The VIP would know, that the common GI would NOT "sugar coat" any information. In today's jargon, the GI would not be "politically correct" when he spoke with the VIP. Although the term was not generally used back then, as it is today, politically acceptable (politically correct) reports were generated from high command to the top. This is when TET happened, and everything fell apart from there. Had the US Military studied the enemy as much as they had studied the USSR's military in the 1960's they would've seen the enemy's plan & could have reacted accordingly. The facts of the enemy's plan are outlined beginning on page 10, titled, "The Enemy in Vietnam", Mounted Combat In Vietnam; Vietnam Studies, Department of Army, published in 1978; by General Donn A. Starry.
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The enemy was hard to find in the jungles of South Vietnam. The answer is jungles.
Wearing down the enemy, until he either surrendered, gave up, or was killed off (dead).
Read the biographies on Generals Patton & Buckner; Gen Buckner was the highest ranking US officer killed by enemy action in WW2.
Actually he was his best enemy once Batista was killed when he was captured.
The Chinese .
If you are a Briton you are probably referring to the medal, The Victoria Cross which is the highest military award offered with in the military. Otherwise you're referring to The Viet Cong which made up the enemy during The Vietnam War.
During the Vietnam War, several American soldiers were killed at Camp Evans in 1969 as a result of enemy attacks and combat operations. The specific names and details of these casualties would be part of military records and historical documentation related to that time and place.
Richard Bong (US Army Air Corp's HIGHEST RANKING Fighter Pilot Ace during WW2), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Admiral King, General Dwight Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, General Stillwell, General Simon Buckner Jr. (Highest Ranking US Military Officer Killed by Enemy Fire during WW2).
Underestimating the enemy.
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