Vietnam War Stories: Vietnam, Body Count. by: Don Poss, WS LM-01, 35th Air Police Squadron, K-9. 1965-1966.

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Body Count
Combatants Killed in Action: 1,382,430
Combatants Wounded in Action: 1,772,465
Combatants MIA/POW: 2,503 (Allied Forces)

Civilians Killed, Vietnamese: 2,000,000 *
Civilians Killed, Allied: 1,000 (est.)

by: Don Poss
Copyright © 1995

* Vietnam Govt estimates killed in Vietnam War, 1960-1975:
	  Combatants (all sides) - 2,000,000 est.
	  Vietnam civilians      - 2,000,000 est.
	  [http://www.leconsulting.com/arthurhu/index/genocide.htm]

U.S. Combatants in the Vietnam War

There were 10 million Americans under arms during the [Vietnam] war. Of the 2.7 million Americans served in the Vietnam war, 300,000 were wounded in action, and 75,000 were disabled. Of the casualties listed on The Wall, approximately 1,300 remain missing in action. "The average age was 19, America's youngest combatants." Note: The quote was written by Country Joe McDonald in 1991 for the Community Memory Alameda County War Memorial Project (\doc\web\97\06\vietnam.txt).

McNamara's "mistakes" In Retrospect [http://199.172.47.21/ZMag/articles/oldchom.htm]: A level of moral blindness that is hard to capture in words By Noam Chomsky "As the 20th anniversary approached, the government of Vietnam released new figures on casualties, generally accepted here and conforming to earlier estimates. The Communists declared, in an official press release to Agence France, that we had actually killed 1.1 million NVA soldiers. Hanoi reported in an official press release to Agence France, that 2 million civilians had been killed, the overwhelming majority in the south, along with 1.1 million North Vietnamese and southern resistance fighters ("Viet Cong," in the terminology of U.S. propaganda). It listed an additional 300,000 missing in action. Washington reports 225,000 killed in the army of its client regime ("South Vietnam"). The CIA estimates 600,000 Cambodians killed during the U.S. phase of what the one independent governmental inquiry (Finland) calls the "Decade of Genocide" in Cambodia: 1969 through 1978. Tens if not hundreds of thousands more were killed in Laos, mainly by U.S. attacks that were in large part unrelated to the war in Vietnam, Washington conceded."

The toll in Indochina also includes the 58,229 U.S. soldiers killed and 2,000 MIAs, along with more than 5,000 killed from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, and elsewhere.

Republic of Vietnam Casualties: KIA 223,748 . . .WIA 1,169,763 ... MIA/POW unknown

United States of America Vietnam Casualties KIA 58,169 ... WIA 304,000 ... MIA/POW 2,494 (One out of every 10 Americans who served in Vietnam was a casualty. 58,169 were killed and 304,000 wounded out of 2.59 million who served.)

Republic of South Korea : KIA ?... WIA ? ... MIA ? (Anyone with stats/source please email to me)

Australia Vietnam Casualties : KIA 423 ... WIA 2,398 ... MIA 2 . . . Non-battle deaths: 71

: KIA 39 ... WIA ? ... MIA/POW 7

New Zealand Vietnam Casualties : KIA 39 ... WIA ? ... MIA ?

NVA and
Viet Cong : KIA 1,100,000 ... WIA 600,000 ... MIA/POW unknown

Soviet Union : KIA 13 ... WIA unknown ... MIA/POW unknown. Soviet troops in North Vietnam numbered 3,000: "In 1965, Soviet soldiers shot down the first U.S. planes lost in Vietnam."

China : Unknown numbers of Casualties

Civilian Casualties of all nations: Unknown

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