The Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files contains records of 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War. These records were transferred into the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration in 2008 Memorial pages honoring Vietnam War casualties, listed by their last names. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. has the names listed in chronological order by date of loss. These alphabetical indexes are for your convenience but do not represent the order of names on the Wall. A
(in PDF format, sorted alphabetically by last name of casualty) American Samoa Guam Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Canal Zone Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota A 1995 demographic study in Population and Development Review calculated 791,000-1,141,000 war-related Vietnamese deaths, both soldiers and civilians, for all of Vietnam from 1965-75 There were 7,878 (1) American officers died in Vietnam War, including 1,278 Warrant Officers, 2,981 Lieutenant, 2,045 Captain, 898 Major/Lt Commander, 426 Lt Colonel/Commander, 238 Colonel, and 12 who had reached the rank of general. Major general/Rear Admiral was the highest ranking personnel died in Vietnam Vietnam War casualties from California Click or Tap on name to find a personal memorial page of a casualty from this state. You can scroll down to see the names of casualties listed under their official city. OR To shorten the name list, enter 2 or more letters of any part of a name in the box below. Tap this upper portion to remove the keypad
Vietnam War. We have 69 South Dakota Counties listed in our archive. This is useful for viewing the names of Gold Star veterans by localized regions within the state. South Dakota Counties → Aurora, Beadle,. And there was Army Capt. Robert H. Sigholtz Jr., 23, of Fairfax County, Va., who was killed May 26, 1969. He fell while serving in the same battalion that his father, Col. Robert H. Sigholtz Sr.,.. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Lt. Thomas Dellwo was killed by a fellow soldier the day before he was slated to leave Vietnam. On the night of March 15, 1971, a group of American artillery officers stationed at the Bien Hoa Air Force base were enjoying a rare wonderful time of great food and fellowship in a brief respite from the war The Vietnam War was a long, deadly struggle that took place from 1954 to 1975 between North Vietnam and South Vietnam The U.S. National Archives shows that 58,220 U.S. soldiers perished. North Vietnamese troops launched the Tet Offensive in January 1968, which was successful against South Vietnam and the U.S LIFE magazine, June 27, 1969, featuring a portrait of U.S. Army specialist William C. Gearing, Jr., one of 242 American servicemen killed in a single week of fighting during the Vietnam War. Joseph L. Rhodes, 22, Marines, L. Cpl., Memphis, Tenn
The Vietnam War left scars on the minds of a generation, but for the soldiers who identified the war dead and sent them home to their families for burial, it has never been more vivid The most casualties for a single month was May 1968, 2,415 casualties were incurred. Sgt. Robert G. Davison of Muskegon, Michigan joined the Marine Corp at the age of 14. He had four years of service in the Marines when he was shipped to Vietnam at age 18 The Johnson administration was no longer capable of convincing anybody that Vietnam War was a major defeat for the communists. 1968 became the deadliest year of the war for US forces with 16,592 soldiers killed. On February 23 the U.S. Selective Service System announced a new draft call for 48,000 men, the second largest of the war Of all enlisted men who died in V'nam, blacks made up 14.1% of the total. This came at a time when they made up 11.0% of the young male population nationwide. If we add officer casualties to enlisted then the black percentage is reduced to 12.5% of all casualties. Of the 7262 blacks who died, 6, 955 or 96% were Army and Marine enlisted men
Other Vietnam War Websites. Mailing Address: The American War Library 14817-C Chadron Avenue Gardena CA 90249 Telephone/Fax: 1-310-355-045 The Living and the Dead. Terry Fincher Getty Images. American soldiers, one wounded and carried by a comrade, descend Hill Timothy in Vietnam, April 1968. Larry Burrows, on Hill Timothy. Vietnam War. We have 7 Rhode Island Counties listed in our archive. This is useful for viewing the names of Gold Star veterans by localized regions within the state. Rhode Island Counties → Bristol, Cumberland, Hartford, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington. Hide Counties A short photographic history of the Vietnam War
During Operation Glory which occurred from July to November 1954 the dead of each side were exchanged; remains of 4,167 US soldiers/Marines were exchanged for 13,528 North Korean/Chinese dead. After Operation Glory 416 Korean War unknowns were buried in the Punchbowl Cemetery. According to a DPMO white paper CriticalPast is an archive of historic footage. The vintage footage in this video has been uploaded for research purposes, and is presented in unedited form... The vietnam war Pictures That Moved Them Most. While the Vietnam War raged — roughly two decades' worth of bloody and world-changing years — compelling images made their way out of the.
Single. SGT - E4 - Air Force - Regular. Length of service 3 years. His tour began on Nov 29, 1967. Casualty was on May 23, 1968. In QUANG TRI, SOUTH VIETNAM. HOSTILE, DIED WHILE MISSING, HELICOPTER - CREW. AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND. Body was recovered This series contains records of U.S. military officers and soldiers who died as a result of either a hostile or nonhostile occurrence or who were missing in action or prisoners of war in the Southeast Asian combat area during the Vietnam War — including casualties that occurred in Cambodia, China, Laos, North Vietnam, South Vietnam and Thailand 2021 Military Pay Scale Army Ranks Navy Ranks Air Force Ranks Alphabet Code DoD Dictionary American War Deaths French Military Victories Vietnam War Casualties The Military Factory name and MilitaryFactory.com logo are registered ® U.S. trademarks protected by all applicable domestic and international intellectual property laws Pinellas County Fatal Casualties of the Vietnam War . Below are the records found at the National Archives of the fatal casualties for Vietnam for the county of Pinellas. I have included the memorials for each individual found at the Virtual Wall website. Please click on the eternal flame at the right of a name to be taken to their memorial State of Utah Vietnam War Casualties. U.S. Military Personnel Who Died as a result of the Vietnam War, 1957-1995 (Including Missing and Captured Declared Dead) **BNR indicates that the body has not been recovered. Source: [Southeast Asia] Combat Area Casualties Current File (CACCF), as of November 1997 (electronic record)
In another example of the lack of dignity the Nazis accorded to fallen Allied soldiers, the bodies of dead Americans after D-Day were pictured lined up next to each other, with nothing but a thin. The United States deployed over 2.5 million soldiers to the Vietnam War and lost 58,220 of those soldiers. An additional 303,644 American soldiers were wounded during the war. The number of soldiers under 20 years old who were killed in action is 11,465. There were over 4 million civilian casualties on both sides during the war A Marine left for dead was resurrected at the end of the Vietnam War. Blake Stilwell. Posted On May 15, 2020 20:02:23. In February 1968, two platoons of Marines from a combat base near Khe Sanh went out on a combat patrol. Ronald Ridgeway, just 18-years-old at the time, was one of those Marines. He and 26 of his fellow Marines would not be.
Theirs was the grimmest mission of the war: the location, identification, and burial of American soldiers who fell in battle. But as the appalling job got underway, the men assigned to the task learned to see it in a new light. Since 1917 the job of caring for American army dead rested with the Quartermaster Corps' Graves Registration Service Sources: World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing, June 1946; Battle Casualties of the Army, 30 September 1954; List of Casualties Incurred by U.S. Military Personnel in Connection with the Conflict in Vietnam, 30 September 1975
The National Archives and Records Administration prepared these Vietnam War casualty lists by creating extracts from the military casualty data files in the Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Record Group 330). The lists are based on the home of record - state data provided by the serviceman or woman upon last entrance into military service Aug. 11, 1972, so U.S. casualties dramatically declined. * The 143 men subsequently declared dead between 1973 and 2002 are not included in these totals. * From 1956-1964, 417Americans died in Vietnam. * During January 1973, 29 Americans died in Vietnam--19 as a result of hostile action. In May 1975, 18 Americans were KIA on Koh Tang Island off. Vietnam War POW/MIA List. Accounted-For: This report includes the U.S. personnel who have been accounted for (including POW returnees and POW escapees) and all personnel whose remains have been recovered and identified since the end of the war. Unaccounted-For: This report includes the U.S. personnel who are still unaccounted for
By the time the war ended, 64 Edison graduates had been killed in Vietnam, a staggering 10 percent of the 648 Philadelphia deaths from the war. It felt like we were losing our protectors, says Plummer. In 2002, Edison relocated to Second and Luzerne Streets, and the massive complex fell into neglect. One of the buildings - nicknamed the. Those portions of the report that proved particularly valuable to the orthopedic surgeons in Vietnam in the management of the wounded soldier are summarized under such topics as treating respiratory insufficiency, arterial hypoxemia after wounding, blood volumes, serum enzymes in combat casualties, and hypoxemia during convalescence l. Battle deaths and wounds not mortal include casualties incurred in October 1941 due to hostile action. m. Worldwide military deaths during the Korean War totaled 54,246. In-theater casualty records are updated annually. n. Number serving covers the period August 5, 1964 (Vietnam era begins), through January 27, 1973 (date of cease-fire) Subtracting foreign dead from this (line 210) gives a likely Vietnam War, war-dead total of 1,719,000 people (line 211). Since this is not the figure to which the preliminary North Vietnamese/Viet Cong and South Vietnamese war-dead figures summed, they must be adjusted such that they add up to this total
Bloody 10-day battle at Hamburger Hill begins. Hamburger Hill was the scene of an intense and controversial battle during the Vietnam War. Known to military planners as Hill 937 (a reference. The Vietnam War (1959-1975) was bloody, dirty, and very unpopular. In Vietnam, U.S. soldiers found themselves fighting against an enemy they rarely saw, in a jungle they couldn't master, for a cause they barely understood. These pictures offer a brief glimpse into life during the Vietnam War
If half of the total casualties in Vietnam occurred after Nixon took office, the toll under Nixon was about 1.5 million Vietnamese deaths. One and a half million is a lot more than 650,000. On the. They spread word of the search for photographs of state casualties to fill in the blanks on a Virtual Wall of Faces, a project of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the nonprofit that built the war's national memorial in Washington D.C. The goal is to include photos in an adjacent education center of all 58,286 soldiers killed in the. As the Vietnam War escalated, the US casualties increased dramatically. In 1967, the war took away 11,363 American lives, nearly twice the death tolled in 1966 and six times the number of deaths in 1965. The above photo captured the death of an American soldier on the devastating battlefield of Vietnam (Catherine Leroy/1967). 1968: Tet Offensiv The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was. Donald Kirk: Honoring our Korean War dead along with Vietnam. Snow blankets the statues of soldiers at the Korean War Veterans Memorial on Jan. 21. A gentle wind on a sunny day created the perfect.
On the American side, Vietnam occurred only two decades after World War II. Back in 1965, death was not rare; it was accepted from the start as normal in ground combat. The tour of duty was one year. Soldiers came and went. Helicopters flew out the dead and wounded, and the unit continued. Ceremonies or memorials were few About 56,000 soldiers died in prison camps during the War. An estimated 60,000 men lost limbs in the war. Union army dead, amounting to 15 percent of the over two million who served, was broken down as follows: 110,070 killed in action (67,000) or died of wounds (43,000)
Charles E. Schamel, comp. Records relating to American prisoners of war and missing in action from the Vietnam War. Washington, D.C. : National Archives and Records Administration, 1996. FHL 973 J53s; Register of Vietnam War casualties from Kentucky; Wisconsin Vietnam War Storie Casualties as of 2 June 2013: 58,286 KIA or non-combat deaths (including the missing & deaths in captivity) 153,303 WIA. 1,645 MIA (originally 2,646) 725-837 POW (660-721 freed/escaped, 65-116 died in captivity) During the Vietnam War, 30% of wounded service members died of their wounds 30 US soldiers killed, 50 wounded in 3 rocket and mortar attacks in northern war zone of S Vietnam; deaths exceed all US battlefield casualties reptd last wk; attacks occur at base called Charlie. Australian casualties in the Vietnam War, 1962-72 These statistics were sourced from the appendix of On the offensive: the Australian Army in the Vietnam War 1967-1968. For details of the total number of Australians who died during the Vietnam War, 1962- 1975, please refer to Deaths as a result of service with Australian units The headline over his face read, The Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week's Toll. Inside the magazine were the names and photos of more than 200 young men who had been killed in the.
It's Memorial day and we honor that faceless avatar our war dead. Contrarily, I have my war dead and their faces haunt me. My experiences rather expose war and our military as farce. I was drafted out of a residency and sent to Vietnam where I served my year as an army flight surgeon. I'll not mention the year or place of my postings hoping that victims' identities will not be. The CACF is the basis for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall): Average age of 58,148 killed in Vietnam was 23.11 years. (Although 58,169 names are in the Nov. 93 database, only 58,148 have both event date and birth date. Event date is used instead of declared dead date for some of those who were listed as missing in action Life Magazine (November 8, 1968) Vietnam war victim, This girl tron. Life Magazine (June 27, 1969) American dead in Vietnam. One of LIFE's most memorable stories was from an issue published on June 27, 1969. Editor-in-chief Hedley Donovan approved a yearbook-like spread of photos of the 242 soldiers who died in Vietnam between May 28 and June 3
More than 58,000 American soldiers died in the fighting between 1960 and 1975; the estimated number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed on both sides varies widely, from 2.1 million to 3.8. The Battle of Xa Cam My was fought over two days, from April 11-12, 1966, 10 miles south of the village of Cam My. The company suffered heavy casualties, with 80 percent of the 134 soldiers leaving the field badly wounded or killed. Charles Epperson, a West Virginia native who is now retired in Salem, was on the ground with the U.S. Army that.
By the time United States troops withdrew from Vietnam in 1973, the Vietnam War had become one of the longest, most controversial conflicts in American history. An estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians were killed, and 58,000 US soldiers died in action. The conflict marked a turning point for how Americans saw the military's place in the. Memorial to dead of Vietnam: City Park: Crystal City: Zavala: Memorial w/ names Zavala County dead from Vietnam: City Park entrance: Cuero: Dewitt: white granite obelisk w/ names of Dewitt County dead from WWI, WWII, Korea & Vietnam: 01/01/49: Courthouse grounds ; 307 N. Gonzales; 1 block W. of US 87: Cuero: Dewitt: Marker w/ inscription; died.
Under President Richard Nixon, 21,194 American soldiers were killed in Vietnam during 1969-74. Under President George H.W. Bush, 383 died in the Gulf War in 1991 The Hanoi government revealed on April 3 that the true civilian casualties of the Vietnam War were 2,000,000 in the north, and 2,000,000 in the south. Military casualties were 1.1 million killed and 600,000 wounded in 21 years of war An estimated 47,434 American soldiers were killed in battle during the Vietnam War, which spanned from 1964 to 1975. An additional 10,786 died in the theater of war, but out of battle, making a. Military honors at graveside will be performed Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Fountainhead Memorial Park, Palm Bay for Warrant Officer Paul Lloyd Berry, U.S. Army. Berry, 21, of 7917 Henry Ave., West Melbourne died Jan 10, in a helicopter crash in Vietnam. He came to South Brevard in 1964 from Delaware
That struggle culminated in the siege of Dien Bien Phu, where more than 3,000 French and 10,000 Vietnamese soldiers died, and ended in Geneva, where the French agreed formally to the partition of. Documentary coming on 27 Father Judge High grads killed in Vietnam. From the Classes of 1961 through '68, a total of 27 young men from the all-boys Catholic high school in Northeast Philadelphia were killed in action in Southeast Asia — more than any other currently-existing parochial or private school in the nation
May 26, 2018 - Explore Skip Watts's board Vietnam War, Life Magazine Covers on Pinterest. See more ideas about life magazine covers, life magazine, vietnam war Hi! i am looking for my dad's dad, my grandpa. He was a soldier in Vietnam who had a child with my grandma in 1972. All I know about him is that 1. His name may be Miller. He would have been stationed in Long Binh in 1971 and Tay Ninh in 72. z 2. He had long blonde hair 3
April 1969: U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam exceed the 33,629 men killed in the Korean War. June 8, 1969: President Nixon meets with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu on Midway Island in. please help us pave the way to honoring these fallen soldiers. please make checks payable to: freedom park fund, camden cycle riders, 2682 waldron road, camden, ny 13316 please visit our website: www.camdencycleriders.com thank you, frank bergin (315) 264-0973. oneida county vietnam war casualties 1 Vietnam War: Search the database of Pennsylvania war dead. Between October 1957 and May 1975, there were 3,147 deaths from the state of Pennsylvania in the Vietnam War. There are 58,220 deaths. The 1960s marked a major transformation for African-American citizens in the United States. The decade also marked the first major combat deployment of an integrated military to Vietnam. The. Figures for Civil War dead have always been approximate; for many years 618,000 was the accepted estimate of total deaths, but one recent study places the figure at 750,000. I've used the smaller number here. Even in those earlier conflicts, most people who served came back alive. But the difference between today and even Vietnam, not to.