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For the period of the Vietnam War the totals are 1,310,000 between 1955 and 1964, 1,700,000 between 1965–74 and 810,000 between 1975 and 1984. (The estimates for 1955–64 are much higher than other estimates). The sum of those totals is 3,091,000 war deaths between 1955–75. [5]
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 [A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major conflict of the Cold War. While the war was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other ...
The My Lai massacre ( / ˌmiːˈlaɪ /; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a war crime committed by United States Army personnel on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh district, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [1]
The Vietnam War body count controversy centers on the counting of enemy dead by the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War (1955–1975). There are issues around killing and counting unarmed civilians ( non-combatants) as enemy combatants, as well as inflating the number of actual enemy who were killed in action (KIA).
Rape, among other acts of wartime sexual violence, was frequently committed against female Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War. It was an aspect of the various human rights abuses perpetrated by the United States and South Korea, as well as by local Vietnamese combatants.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc. Phan Thị Kim Phúc. OOnt. June 8, 1972: Kim Phúc, center, running down a road naked near Trảng Bàng after a South Vietnam Air Force napalm attack ( Nick Ut / The Associated Press) Born. Phan Thị Kim Phúc. ( 1963-04-06) April 6, 1963 (age 61) Trảng Bàng, South Vietnam.
1966 in the Vietnam War. A map of South Vietnam showing provincial boundaries and names and military zones: 1, II, III, and IV Corps. At the beginning of 1966, the number of U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam totaled 184,300. [5] : 149 South Vietnamese military forces totaled 514,000 including the army (ARVN) and the Regional Force and ...
Two hundred and sixteen American soldiers were killed in the war in 1964. [120] 23,310 U.S. military personnel were in South Vietnam at the end of the year. [8] : 102 The South Vietnamese armed forces suffered 7,457 killed in action, about 30 percent more than the total killed in the previous year.