Other deaths include non-war related things like heart attacks, etc. Nontheater means deaths of service members while a war was going on, but the person was assigned to duty in an area other than the war zone. During the Vietnam War, that might have been military deaths for various causes including accidents in Korea, Germany, Italy and the United States.
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US figures for theMexican War (1846–1848) Total servicemembers 78,718 Battle deaths 1,733 Other deaths in service (nontheater) 11,550 Nonmortal woundings 4,152
There is a Estimation of over 300,000 casualties in The Vietnam war. Because in the year 1968, there was over 500,000 American soldiers fighting for the Southern part of Vietnam. And there could be less but no won knows or has a real number of the casualties.
World War I (1917–1918) Total servicemembers 4,734,991 Battle deaths 53,402 Other deaths in service (nontheater) 63,114 Nonmortal woundings 204,002 Living US veterans 1
Civil War (1861–1865) Total servicemembers (Union) 2,213,363 Battle deaths (Union) 140,414 Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Union) 224,097 Nonmortal woundings (Union) 281,881 Total servicemembers (Conf.) 1,050,000 Battle deaths (Conf.) 74,524 Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Conf.) 59,297 Nonmortal woundings (Conf.) unknown
According to a Wikipedia article, 16,112,566 people were members of the United States armed forces during World War II. There were 291,557 battle deaths, 113,842 other deaths in service (non-theater), and 671,846 non-mortal woundings, for a total of 405,399 deaths in service, and a total of 1,077,245 killed and wounded. A total of 15,707,167 survived the war, 15,035,321 non-wounded.