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About 7,300 African Americans were killed.
About 48,000 European Americans were killed.
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Of the more than 58,000 American soldier killed during the Vietnam War, eight were women. Sixty American female civilians were also killed.
African-Americans during the 1960s called Vietnam "the White Man's War"; because the US wanted to stop communism there, but were drafting African-Americans (and all other US males) to fight it.
A casualty was a casualty in the Army. They did not classify casualties ethnically.
The Vietnam War resulted more than 58,000 American deaths (including missing in action).More than 58,000 Americans lost their lives during the Vietname War.