The coronavirus pandemic has been described as an invisible war, but the only comparable figures come from conflicts long in our rearview mirror. On Tuesday, less than three months later, the death toll has surpassed the number of U. On April 11, the United States surpassed Italy to set a grim record: highest confirmed coronavirus death toll in the world. Now, there are over a million cases and 58, deaths—a third of the global caseload and a quarter of total deaths.
An estimated 47, American soldiers were killed in battle during the Vietnam War, which spanned from to An additional 10, died in the theater of war, but out of battle, making a total of 58, deaths.
Conflict casualty statistics differentiate between soldiers and civilians, and between deaths in the theater of war and outside it. Read about the woman who discovered the first coronaviruses. The current coronavirus death toll also surpasses the U. The date-of-death reported in the Defense Casualty Analysis System DCAS Extract Files is either the actual date-of-death or the date-of-incident, whereas the date-of-death for the Combat Area Casualties Current File is either the actual date-of-death or the date on which the casualty was declared dead.
The full casualty records of the Defense Casualty Analysis System DCAS Extract Files are accessible online for name searches as well as for searches using any of the other fields identified in the data layout of the files in this series for records of specific casualties via the Access to Archival Databases AAD resource. These tables represent statistics for a selection of categories based on the fields of the file. The selections of fields used in creating these tables were made on the basis of usefulness and interest to prospective researchers and the general public.
These tables are for informational purposes and do not answer all questions of a statistical nature regarding U. Over , patients were airlifted nearly half were American. The average time lapse between wounding to hospitalization was less than one hour. As a result, less than one percent of all Americans wounded, who survived the first 24 hours, died. The helicopter provided unprecedented mobility.
Without the helicopter it would have taken three times as many troops to secure the mile border with Cambodia and Laos the politicians thought the Geneva Conventions of and the Geneva Accords or would secure the border. The Vietnamese pilot who dropped the napalm in error is currently living in the United States.
News media have reported tha an American commander ordered the air strike that burned Kim Phuc. Those are incorrect. There were no Americans involved in any capacity. During that same Census count, the number of Americans falsely claiming to have served was: 9,, As of the current Census taken during August, , the surviving U. Vietnam Veteran population estimate is: 1,, During this Census count, the number of Americans falsely claiming to have served in-country is: 13,, This makes calculations of those alive, even in , difficult to maintain.
Corrections and confirmations to this errored index resulted in the addition of U. Isolated atrocities committed by American Soldiers produced torrents of outrage from anti-war critics and the news media while Communist atrocities were so common that they received hardly any media mention at all. The United States sought to minimize and prevent attacks on civilians while North Vietnam made attacks on civilians a centerpiece of its strategy.
Americans who deliberately killed civilians received prison sentences while Communists who did so received commendations. From to , the National Liberation Front assassinated 36, Vietnamese and abducted another 58, The death squads focused on leaders at the village level and on anyone who improved the lives of the peasants such as medical personnel, social workers, and school teachers.
The last American troops departed in their entirety 29 March How could we lose a war we had already stopped fighting? We fought to an agreed stalemate. The peace settlement was signed in Paris on 27 January It called for release of all U. The , evacuees in April during the fall of Saigon consisted almost entirely of civilians and Vietnamese military, NOT American military running for their lives.
There were almost twice as many casualties in Southeast Asia primarily Cambodia the first two years, after the fall of Saigon in , than there were during the ten years the U. Thanks for the perceived loss and the countless assassinations and torture visited upon Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians goes mainly to the American media and their undying support-by-misrepresentation of the anti-War movement in the United States.
As with much of the Vietnam War, the news media misreported and misinterpreted the Tet Offensive.
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