January 2-3 January. The 'shameful gamesmanship' practiced by 'certain reporting elements' under pressure to 'produce results' also shrouded the process. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. [21] During the peak war years, another scholar Guenter Lewy attributed almost a third of civilian deaths to the VC. Pentagon statistics listed 39,000 and 61,000 PRG/DRV dead for the same time period.". The Army as a branch had 134,982 killed or wounded (9.5 percent), but the Marines suffered 66,227 killed or wounded (22.5 percent) or almost one of every four Marines who served. Since 1941 Congress has declared war only six times, all during World War II. She received an award from the National Federation of Press Women in 2022 for her editing work on Vietnam Magazine. Meanwhile, the United States, its military demoralized and its civilian electorate deeply divided, began a process of coming to terms with defeat in what had been its longest and most controversial war. To put a circle around the symbol beside their names would not provide the correct historical context related to their situation. The sum of those totals is 3,091,000 war deaths between 195575. [64] According to the Vietnamese government, from 1994 to 2012, 172,460 PAVN/VC bodies were found, including 15,989 in Cambodia, and 14,549 in Laos, and around 10,000 bodies were found from 2012 to 2015, reducing the number of MIA from 390,000 (1993) to 207,000 (2016). DADEVILLE, Ala. (WSFA) - Four teens are dead and 28 were injured after a sweet-16 birthday party ended in gunfire Saturday night. [49] The Second Marine Brigade perpetrated the Phong Nh and Phong Nht massacre on 12 February 1968. Colleen Pontes, whose father Kevin Joyce was added in 2003, remembered the rush of emotions she felt as she and her brother watched their dads name being inscribed in the granite. [91] Around 3035% 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%). (in PDF format, sorted alphabetically by last name of casualty) American Samoa Guam Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Canal Zone Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Locate the line on which the name is inscribed. During that period, they stated, they lost 849,018 killed plus approximately 232,000 missing and 463,000 wounded. 1:50. Alfred M. Gray Research Center Including 28 civilians, originally there were 52 missing civilians. The costs and casualties of the growing war proved too much for the United States to bear, and U.S. combat units were withdrawn by 1973. Washington, DC 20374-5060, For records relating to U.S. national war policy, information may be found in, Vietnam War Casualty and POW/MIA Records Descriptions, Vietnam War Fatal Casualty Statistics (U. S. Armed Forces Personnel), State Lists of U. S. Fatal Casualties of the Vietnam War, Electronic Data Records Relating to Military Objectives and Activities During the Vietnam War, Search Selected Vietnam War Electronic Records, RG 472 United States Forces in Southeast Asia, 1950-1975, Office of Civil Operations and Rural Support (CORDS), Marine Corps Command Chronologies for the Vietnam War, Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action from the Vietnam War Era, 1960-1994, RG 335 Office of the Secretary of the Army, RG 341, Records of the U.S. Air Force Staff, RG 342, Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations, RG 340, Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, RG 27 Records of the Marine Corps - Command Chronologies (Entry UD-07D 1), RG 24 Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, RG 218 Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, RG 330 Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Lins intention from the beginning was to have the names appear chronologically, beginning and ending at the apex. The National Park Service offers these steps for locating a name: National Park Service rangers and volunteers are available to assist in locating names at the Memorial. "[56] Another Marine commander, Gen. Robert E. Cushman Jr., added, "we had a big problem with atrocities attributed to them, which I sent on down to Saigon. Names can also be located on The Wall of Faces on VVMFs web site, www.vvmf.org/wall-of-faces, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund | 3033 Wilson Blvd, Suite 300 | Arlington VA 22201 | 202.393.0090 Long before the Vietnam conflict had ended, the "Huey" (its original Army designation was HU-1A, for Helicopter, Utility, Model 1A) was probably the most recognizable helicopter in the world. However, there have been no such cases. I asked if he wanted to see his picture, Reckinger said. Proving a direct correlation to the injuries is a challenge, Pontes explained. After looking at his friend on the Wall of Faces, he had one sentence for me: I forgot what he looked like.. [8], Lewy estimates that 40,000 South Vietnamese civilians were assassinated by the PAVN/VC; 300,000 were killed as a result of combat in South Vietnam, and 65,000 were killed in North Vietnam for a total of 405,000 killed. [65], According to the Vietnamese government's official history, the PAVN suffered over 100,000 casualties during the 1972 Easter Offensive, including 40,000 killed. 1972 FamilySearch Research Wiki Articles United States, National Archives, Military Records, 1885-2004 In 1965 alone they comprised 14.1% of total combat deaths, when they only comprised approximately 11% of the total U.S. population in the same year. History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. State-Level Lists of Fatal Casualties of the Korean War (6/28/1950 - 3/10/1954) and the Vietnam War (6/8/1956 - 5/28/2006) Korean War State-Level Fatal Casualty Lists sorted Alphabetically by Last Name Vietnam War State-Level Fatal Casualty Lists sorted Alphabetically by Last Name [69], There has been considerable controversy about the exact numbers of deaths inflicted on the Communist side by U.S. and allied South Vietnamese forces. This totals, from a range of between 16,000 and 167,000 deaths caused by South Vietnam during the (Dim-era), and 42,000 and 118,000 deaths caused by South Vietnam in the post Dim-era), excluding PAVN forces killed by the ARVN in combat. Furthermore, domestic unrest and the financial cost of war made peaceand troop withdrawalsa necessity, not a choice. [62] According to the Vice Minister Nguyn B Hoan, in 2022, nearly 200,000 PAVN/VC were still MIA (whose bodies were have not been found), and 300,000 whose bodies have been found, but buried anonymously and never identified. The National Archives has custody of U.S. Navy deck logs and U.S. Navy muster rolls/personnel diaries for the Vietnam conflict. Inscribed dots in the margins of every other panel mark every 10 lines to aid in counting. Please Note: These records have not been processed and almost all are still classified. The human costs of the long conflict were harsh for all involved. Necessarily, more is lost to time than is remembered. This change prompted the addition of 110 names in 1986. Since body counts were a direct measure of operational success, US "operations reports" often listed civilian deaths as enemy KIA or exaggerated the number. [73][74], Historian Christian Appy states "search and destroy was the principal tactic; and the enemy body count was the primary measure of progress" in the US strategy of attrition. Lt.Sharon Lane, Capt. While at a The Wall That Heals stop, a local veteran asked me to find his friends name on The Wall. LOUISVILLE, Ky. Two people were killed and four others injured in Louisville, Kentucky, when someone shot into a crowd at a park on Saturday evening, the city's second mass shooting of . Other volunteers who played a key role include Andrew Johnson, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher; David Hine, who first discovered the effort from a VVMF newsletter; and Herb Reckinger, who began searching for Minnesotans on the Wall in 2014 and expanded to other states. [2] [7], R. J. Rummel, a libertarian anti-communist political scientist, had a mid-range estimate in 1997 that the total deaths due to the Vietnam War totaled 2,450,000 from 195475. [3], A 1995 demographic study in Population and Development Review calculated 791,0001,141,000 war-related Vietnamese deaths, both soldiers and civilians, for all of Vietnam from 196575. [45] One example cited by Turse is Operation Speedy Express, an operation by the 9th Infantry Division, which was described by John Paul Vann as, in effect, "many My Lais". [36][37][38][39] The My Lai Massacre was initially written off as an operational success and covered up. "We had no qualms. And they are so respectful when they do the engraving. Researcher Seeks Help Finding Last Photos for Vietnam Wall of Faces Memorial, This Non-Profit Organization Works to Recover WWII MIAs Still Missing, Epitaph for a Hero: The Search for a WWII MIA Pilot, https://www.historynet.com/the-wall-of-faces-complete-vietnam-war/, Jerrie Mock: Record-Breaking American Female Pilot, Made in America: The M3 Tank Was Better Suited for the Pacific Theater, This Soviet Bomber was designed in a prison camp. The goal was to collect at least one photograph of each of the 58,281 Vietnam War service members whose names are inscribed on the Wall began in 2001. [15][16][17] Walter Mead estimates that approximately 365,000 Vietnamese civilians to have died as a result of the war during the period of American involvement. Beside each name is a symbol that denotes a service members status: either missing or confirmed dead. He tried to make the best call he could when adding names to the list. [58] According to Guenter Lewy, the ARVN suffered between 171,331 and 220,357 deaths during the war. In 1982 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., inscribed with the names of 57,939 members of U.S. armed forces who had died or were missing as a result of the war. The South Vietnamese government, on the other hand, fought to preserve a Vietnam more closely aligned with the West. Officials have released the names of the victims of the Dadeville, Alabama mass shooting at a birthday party. They also assert that the U.S. overall suffered fewer casualties than its opponents. A few years after the dedication, the issue of geographic criteria was expanded by DoD to include people who had been killed outside of the war zone while on or in support of direct combat missions. In order to have your name on the Wall, you had to have died within the war zone, explained Doubek. The list of names goes down panel 1 East, then to the right to line 1 of panel 2 East. If youre looking to see where better photos are needed, you can do a search online through the Wall of Faces. The United States has spent over $65 million since 1998 as part of unexploded ordnance clearing operations. It granted him broad latitude in handling the struggle against communism in Southeast Asia. Corrections? Lt. Hedwig Orlowski, 2nd Lt. Carol Drazba, 1st. These names are followed by the inscription: Our nation honors the courage, sacrifice and devotion to duty and country of its Vietnam veterans. She wanted the names to tell the journey, or the timeline, of the war. Those totals include only Vietnamese deaths, and do not include American and other allied military deaths which amounted to about 64,000. Inscribed on the black granite walls are the names of more than 58,000 men and women who gave their lives or remain missing. 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272, https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/pages/main.xhtml, State Lists of Fatal Casualties of the Vietnam War, www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-lists/, Re: Seeking data for those who served by branch in Southeast Asia during 1965-73, Seeking data for those who served by branch in Southeast Asia during 1965-73, Re: Seeking number of Army & Marines casualties on July 4, 1968, Re: Looking for digitized Vietnam and/or WWII casualty information, Find answers to your research questions at, How to File a FOIA Request for Archival Records. He did so after a chance encounter at a VVMF event that brings a smaller replica of The Wall to communities across America. The government of Vietnam says that 4 million of its citizens were exposed to Agent Orange, and as many as 3 million have suffered illnesses because of it; these figures include the children of people who were exposed. [98], Unexploded ordnance continue to detonate and kill people today. The overwhelming majority of the MIA are from northern Vietnam. I went through the whole list of names eight times, because I was concerned about the correct formatting, remembered Doubek. 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