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About 6.7 million total death and at least another 3.5 million wounded.
Comment: That is as inflated a figure as I have ever heard. By all accounts there are varying claims of 600,000 to 1.2 million deaths in North Vietnam and their combatants in South Vietnam. The deaths of civilian and military in South Vietnam approximately 450,000. Nowhere and in no war I have ever heard of have the number of dead exceeded the number wounded. In Vietnam, the number of wounded Americans to those killed were about 19 to 1. Just over 58,000 killed, about 1 million wounded. A pure guess, but I think North Vietnam was about a 5 to 1 ratio. So 3 to 6 million wounded. With Americans about 200,000 suffered permanent debility from physical wounds. Another pure guess, but likely 1 to 1.5 million of the wounded North Vietnamese suffered permanent disability. South Vietnamese because they received American Medical care probably had a similar ratio as Americans. But the reduced and hopefully relatively accurate figures I give are a big tragedy for all three factions. For Vietnam it was their war of liberation from foreign rule and occupation. We fought for te wrong reasons. And 35 years later we prove wrong as all of Southeast Asia did not become Communist as predicted. And we have considerable trade with the former enemy.
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ReneUS newspapers used to publish the casualties weekly: Name, rank, age, branch of service. The US Marines and US Army usually had the longest columns of names, followed by the US Air Force and Navy, then the US Coast Guard. They probably averaged about less than a hundred a week. The US Air Force/US Navy names were almost always pilots and aircrewmen. US Coastguardsmen's names were often helicopter rescue teams trying to retrieve shot down jet pilots and airmen.
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What was the US death rate during the Vietnam War?
Over 58,000 US servicemen were killed in the Vietnam War. Averaged out, possibly over a hundred per week for ten years, or over 200 a week for five years.
If you never left the USA during the Vietnam war is there any way you rate the Vietnam Service medal?
No! You had to be "In country" or fly over on a mission or in the direct waters off the coast.
Was there drug abuse in the Vietnam war?
During the Vietnam war the rate of use was about 5% Heroin was: - inexpensive - about 95 percent pure (compared to 5 percent in the US) - easy to obtain Most users smoked or sniffed or even ate heroin Most users stopped when they returned to the U.S.
What was number of deaths in Vietnam by week?
With some exceptions, such as the TET offensive of '68, and some of the larger battles towards the end of the war in the '70's...the average US death rate was about 200 to 300 men a week.
How many casualties were there in the Vietnam War?
5 million - USA : 58'209 KIA (killed in action) + 2'000 missing- North Vietnam Army + NLF (also called Viet Cong) : 800'000 KIA + 300'000 MIA (missing in action), total 1'100'000 losses- South Vietnam Army (ARVN) : ~250'000 KIA- Vietnamese civilians : estimates vary greatly, from 1 to 4 millions killedThe South Vietnamese Military (Army, Navy, Air Force, & Marines) lost approximately 200,000 men during the war. US losses were approximately 58,000 men killed during the war.58,000 u.s casualties
