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For most of the Vietnam War, Ho Chi Minh led North Vietnam. The US Presidents were Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.
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.
1945 $160 million 1951 $450 million 1953 $785 million. Multiply those figures for today's dollar values.
Approximately 3,403,100 US servicemen served in Southeast Asia (2,594,000 of those men served in country); nearly 60,000 didn't make it back. Those are your "life expectancy" figures.
On 04 April 1995, The French Press Agency in Hanoi released partial information concerning casualties: That North Vietnam suffered approximately 1.1 million military dead and 600,000 wounded in 21 years of war. Some of these casualties came from AAA/SAM crews manning anti-aircraft defenses; as well as N. Vietnamese MIG pilot losses. 21 years of war, was not defined. Released figures from another source show: approximately 400,000 communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and 360,000 communists in South Vietnam in 1969. Data was COMBINED NVA/VC. The drop in figures from the high 1968 mark to a low in 1969, was most likely due to losses from the 1968 TET offensive.
US figures are available on the site: Statistics about the Vietnam War. Note*Drafted men were usually given the option to "enlist" (Volunteer) thus allowing them the chance of obtaining better MOS's (Military Occupational Specialties-jobs) and/or better duty stations...Europe, Korea, US Bases in the US, etc.). They would NOT have enlisted had they not been drafted. Those "volunteers" listed in the statistics are mostly from the above category. Over 19,000 conscripted Australian servicemen served in Vietnam.