Friday, May 1, 2015

The Vietnam War By the Numbers-- Part 1: Casualties and MIA

From the April 30, 2015, Panama City News Herald.

THE PEOPLE

92.5 million: Vietnam's population in 2014.  More than two-thirds of the country was born after the war ended.

1.3 million+:  Americans of Vietnamese ethnic origin up from 231,000 in 1980.

THE CASUALTIES

58,000+: U.S. servicemen killed in Vietnam and neighboring Laos and Cambodia.

3 million:  Vietnamese communist fighters and civilians killed.  That does not include South Vietnameseces, whose losses are estimated by some American sources as up to 250,000.

1.971:  Americans missing in action and otherwise unaccounted for in Vietnam at war's end.

700+:  U.S. remains recovered and identified by joiny U.S.-Vietnamese teams since then.


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