During the Vietnam War, 30% of wounded service members died of their wounds. [92] Around 30–35% of American deaths in the war were non-combat or friendly fire deaths; the largest causes of death in the U.S. armed forces were small arms fire (31.8%), booby traps including mines and frags (27.4%), and aircraft crashes (14.7%).

Aug 23, 2022 · 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.

America paid a terrible price for its involvement in the Vietnam War - nearly 60,000 killed-in-action, over 150,000 wounded, and some 1,600 missing. Numbers certainly do not tell the whole story - or all of them - but they certainly paint a picture of lives lost and families devastated.

U.S. Military Casualties - Vietnam Conflict Casualty Summary (As of February 28, 2025)

Jan 24, 2012 · In 1993-94, after PCs had become commonplace, Tom Holloway (Emory University, Atlanta) changed the landscape by obtaining the Department of Defense's casualty database and the Army Adjutant General's database in digital form.

Feb 13, 2025 · In 1995 Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the Vietnam War: as many as 2,000,000 civilians on both sides and some 1,100,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters. The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died.

National Archives (NARA) Vietnam War Databases. Vietnam War - Access to Archival Databases (AAD) includes Vietnam War casualties, wounded, prisoners of war, missing in action, awards, and more items

Sep 7, 2021 · These include the records of persons who were missing in action or prisoners of war in either the Korean War or the Vietnam War.

Myth: A disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War. 86% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasians, 12.5% were black, 1.2% were other races. (CACF and Westmoreland)

As of April 14, 2017, there are 1,611 Americans still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War across Vietnam (1,258), Laos (297), Cambodia (49), and China (7). The Statistics in the Combat Area Casualty File (CACF 11/93) show an average age of …