Vietnam - The Cost
Vietnam - The Cost
- An estimated total of 2,122,244 were killed and 3,650,946 wounded.
- 58,169 Americans were killed (11,465 of them were teenagers) and
304,000 wounded.
- More than 74,000 French had been killed before the first Americans
arrived in 1956.
- 501 Australian military personnel and 7 civilians were killed; 2,069 were wounded.
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The average Australian soldier in Vietnam was 20 years old and saw 314
days of combat in a period of one year. The average World War 11 soldier
in the South Pacific had been 26 years old and saw 40 days of combat in a
period of four years.
- 444,000 North Vietnamese and 220,557 South Vietnamese military
personnel and 587,000 civilians were killed.
- 2,590,000 Americans and 59,520 Australians served in Vietnam
- 6,727,084 tons of bombs were dropped (compared with 2,700,000 tons
dropped on Germany during World War 11.)
- 3,750 fixed wing aircraft and 4,865 helicopters were lost. Australia
lost 2 fixed wing aircraft and 10 helicopters.
- 3,500,000 acres of Vietnam were spayed with defoliants, the effect
of which will last up to 100 years.
