Vietnam War Casualties
The human toll of the Vietnam War is starkly illuminated below as recorded by the National Archives in its statistical information on fatalities.
"The following tables were generated from the Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files, which is current as of April 29, 2008".
The data of each category ends in the most significant total of 58,220 casualties (death) as generated by the records collected by the National Archives. Some studies are at odds with the reported data below. However, most are within 100 and less than 1,000, of the numbers reported by the national Archives. The differences may partially lie in that the National Archives data extends to 2006 rather than most studies that run through 1975.
Death Casualties
Ho Chi Minh:
"You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours.
But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win".
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Casualties by Country LAOS 728 CAMBODIA 52 CHINA 10 NORTH VIETNAM 1,120 SOUTH VIETNAM 55,661 THAILAND 178
Total Records 58,220
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Casualties by Race AMERICAN INDIAN/ALASKA NATIVE 226 ASIAN 139 BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 7,243 HISPANIC ONE RACE 349 NATIVE HAWAIIAN OR OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER 229 NON-HISPANIC MORE THAN ONE RACE 204 WHITE 49,830 Total Records 58,220  |
Casualties by Category Vietnam War Casualties
ACCIDENT 9,10 7 DECLARED DEAD 1,201
DIED OF WOUNDS 5,299 HOMICIDE 236
ILLNESS 938 KILLED IN ACTION 40,934
PRESUMED DEAD (BODY REMAINS RECOVERED) 32
PRESUMED DEAD (BODY REMAINS NOT RECOVERED)
91
SELF-INFLICTED 382
Total Records 58,220 Vietnam War Casualties
Casualty by State and Territory
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ALABAMA 1,208 ALASKA 57 AMERICAN SAMOA 4 ARIZONA 619 ARKANSAS 592 CALIFORNIA 5,575 CANAL ZONE 2 COLORADO 623 CONNECTICUT 612 DELAWARE 122 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 242 FLORIDA 1,954 FOREIGN 4 GEORGIA 1,581 GUAM 70 HAWAII 276 IDAHO 217 ILLINOIS 2,936 INDIANA 1,534 IOWA 851 KANSAS 627 KENTUCKY 1,056 LOUISIANA 885 MAINE 341 MARYLAND 1,014 MASSACHUSETTS MICHIGAN 2,657 MINNESOTA 1,077 MISSISSIPPI 636 MISSOURI 1,418 |
MONTANA 267 NEBRASKA 396 NEVADA 149 NEW HAMPSHIRE 226 NEW JERSEY 1,487 NEW MEXICO 395 NEW YORK 4,119 NORTH CAROLINA 1,613 NORTH DAKOTA 199 OHIO 3,094 OKLAHOMA 987
OREGON 710 PENNSYLVANIA 3,147 PUERTO RICO 345 RHODE ISLAND 209 SOUTH CAROLINA 895 SOUTH DAKOTA 192 TENNESSEE 1,295 TEXAS 3,415 UTAH 361 VERMONT 100 VIRGIN ISLANDS 15 VIRGINIA 1,305 WASHINGTON 1,047 WEST VIRGINIA 733 WISCONSIN 1,161 WYOMING 119 Total Records 58,220 |
Vietnam War Memorial Wall lists over 58,000 names and 22 countries named in the Memorial
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Casualties by Gender Male 58,212 Female 8
Total Records 58,220 |
Casualties by Service Component National Guard 97 Regular 34,508 Reserve 5,762 Selected Service 17,671 Not Reported 182 Total Records 58,220 |
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Casualties by Grade Enlisted Men (Grades E1 – E9) 48,717 Officers (Grade Codes O01 – O08)* 6,604 Warrant Officers (Grade Codes W01 – W04)* 1,277 Undefined Code or Blank 1,622 Total Records 58,220 |
Casualties by Hostile or Non Hostile Action. HOSTILE DEATH 47,434 NON HOSTILE DEATH 10,786 Total Records 58,220 |
Casualties by Year
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1956 - 1959 4 1960 5 1961 16 1962 53 1963 122 1964 216 1965 1,928 1966 6,350 1967 11,363 1968 16,899 1969 11,780 1970 6,173 1971 2,414 |
1972 759 1973 68 1974 1 1975 62 1976 - 1979 0 1980 - 1986 0 1987 1 1988 - 1989 0 1990 1 1991 - 1999 0 2000 - 2006 5 Total Records 58,220 |
Vietnam War Casualties
Casualties by Service
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Marine Corps 14,844 Navy 2,559 Total Records 58,220 |
Air Force 2,586 Army 38,224
Coast Guard
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Belligerents Killed in Action
Australia 426
South Korea 5,099
Thailand 351
New Zealnd 37
Philippines 9
China 1,446
Soviet Union 16
S. Vietnam est. 220,000
N. Vietnam/Vietcong est 1,011,000 (body count made by U.S. troops may have been over estimated by at least 30%--and may include civilians)
Vietnam
War Casualties
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References and Sources:
History.com
Mobile Riverine Force Association
National Archives
Statistical Brain
The Vietnam Memorial
Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Vietnam War Casualties
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