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Vietnam
War (American War) – stats
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The
Vietnam War, known as the American War in Vietnam, was fought primarily in
South Vietnam between Diem’s government forces aided by the United States and
guerrilla forces (the Viet Cong) aided by North Vietnam
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The war
began soon after the Geneva Conference (1954) provisionally divided Vietnam
into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the Republic of
Vietnam (South Vietnam)
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It
escalated from a Vietnamese civil war into a limited international conflict in
which the United States was deeply involved, and did not end, despite peace
agreements in 1973, until North Vietnam's successful offensive in 1975 resulted
in South Vietnam's collapse and the unification of Vietnam by the North
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58,148
Americans were killed and around 304,000 wounded out of 2,59 million who
served.
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The
average age of Americans killed in Vietnam was 23,11 years
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The
average infantryman in the South Pacific during World War II saw about 40 days
of combat in four years. The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days
of combat in one year, thanks to the mobility of the helicopter
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One out
of every 10 Americans who served in Vietnam was a casualty. Although the
percentage who died is similar to other wars, amputations or crippling wounds were
300 percent higher than in World War II. 75,000 Vietnam veterans are severely
disabled
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Two-thirds
of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers
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Accurate
statistics for Vietnam dead are hard to come by, but the few figures below are
probably in the ballpark...
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From 1957
to 1973 the National Liberation Front assassinated around 36,000 South
Vietnamese and abducted around 58,000. Death squads focused on community leaders
that included schoolteachers and minor officials
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South
Vietnamese dead were estimated at more than 400,000, and Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese at over 900,000
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Civilian
deaths were put at two million in the north and south
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