Cold War | Vietnam Conflict
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. The Vietnam War became a painful lesson for many - from Washington, D.C. to Smalltown America. The officially-reported numbers and categories below cover American Vietnam War deaths by age group, branch of service, service component, type of death, reason for death, race, religion, sex, state/protectorate and deaths by war year (including post-war).
By Age:
Age at Time of Death Casualties 17 12 18 3,103 19 8,283 20 14,095 21 9,705 22 4,798 23 3,495 24 2,650 25 2,018 26 1,414 27 917 28 768 29 710 30-39 4,927 40-49 1,156 50-59 121 60-62 4 Unknown Age/Not Reported 17 TOTAL: 58,193 Branch of Service: Casualties United States Air Force (USAF) 2,584 United States Army (U.S. Army) 38,209 United States Coast Guard (USCG) 7 United States Marine Corps (USMC) 14,838 United States Navy (USN) 2,555 TOTAL: 58,193 Component: Casualties Reserves 5,760 National Guard 97 Regular 34,475 Selective Service 17,672 Unknown 189 TOTAL: 58,193 Casualty Type: Casualties Killed in Action (KIA); Died in Combat 38,502 Killed in Action (KIA); Died of Wounds 5,264 Killed in Action (KIA); Died while Missing 3,524 Prisoner of War (POW); Died in Captivity 116 Non-Hostile; Other Causes 7,458 Non-Hostile; Death from Illness / Injury 1,978 Non-Hostile; Died while Missing 1,351 TOTAL: 58,193 Race Reported: Casualties Native American 226 Caucasian 50,120 Malayan 252 Mongolian 116 Negro 7,264 Unknown 215 TOTAL: 58,193 Reason Reported: Casualties Guns; Small Arms 18,518 Multiple Fragmentary Wounds 8,456 Air Loss; Crash on Land 7,992 Other Explosive Devices 7,450 Artillery, Rocket or Mortar 4,914 Other Accident 1,371 Misadventure 1,326 Drowned; Suffocated 1,207 Vehicle Loss; Crash 1,187 Accidental Homicide 944 Accidental Self-Destruction 842 Other Causes 754 Air Loss; Crash at Sea 577 Burns 530 Illness; Disease 482 Suicide 382 Heart Attack 273 Intentional Homicide 234 Malaria 118 Bomb Explosion 52 Stroke 42 Hepatitis 22 Unknown; Not Reported 520 TOTAL: 58,193 Religion Reported: Casualties Assemblies of God 117 Baptist - American 4 Baptist - Southern 121 Baptist - Other 9,478 Brethren, Dunkers 63 Buddhism 53 Christian Science 63 Church of Christ 528 Church of God 238 Congregational Christian 145 Disciples of Christ 34 Episcopal, Anglican 825 Evangelical, United Brethren 39 Evangelical, Reformed 11 Friends, Quakers 12 Jehovah's Witnesses 26 Jewish 269 Mormon Latter Day Saints 589 Lutheran & Missouri Synod 2,251 Methodist 4,079 Mission Covenant 1 Moslem, Muslim 12 Nazarene 132 Orthodox, Russian 22 Pentecostal 182 Presbyterian 1,303 Protestant - Other 559 Protestant - No Preference 16,644 Reformed 45 Roman Catholic 16,815 7th Day Adventist 116 Unitarian Universalist 45 United Church of Christ 11 No Religious Preference 1,284 Other Religions 210 Unknown 1,809 TOTAL: 58,193 Sex: Casualties Female 8 Male 58,185 TOTAL: 58,193 State / Protectorate: Casualties Alabama 1,207 Alaska 57 Arizona 623 Arkansas 588 California 5,573 Canal Zone 2 Colorado 620 Connecticut 611 Delaware 122 District of Columbia 242 Florida 1,952 Georgia 1,582 Guam 70 Hawaii 276 Idaho 217 Illinois 2,934 Indiana 1,532 Iowa 853 Kansas 627 Kentucky 1,055 Louisiana 882 Maine 343 Maryland 1,014 Massachusetts 1,323 Michigan 2,654 Minnesota 1,072 Mississippi 637 Missouri 1,413 Montana 268 Nebraska 395 Nevada 151 New Hampshire 227 New Jersey 1,484 New Mexico 399 New York 4,121 North Carolina 1,609 North Dakota 198 Ohio 3,096 Oklahoma 988 Oregon 709 Pennsylvania 3,144 Puerto Rico 345 Rhode Island 207 South Carolina 896 South Dakota 193 Tennessee 1,291 Texas 3,415 Utah 366 Vermont 100 Virgin Islands 15 Virginia 1,304 Washington 1,050 West Virginia 732 Wisconsin 1,161 Wyoming 120 Other (Non-U.S.) 121 TOTAL: 58,193 Year: Casualties 1956-1960 9 1961 16 1962 52 1963 118 1964 206 1965 1,863 1966 6,143 1967 11,153 1968 16,592 1969 11,616 1970 6,081 1971 2,357 1972 641 1973 168 1974 178 1975 161 1976 77 1977 96 1978 447 1979 148 1980 26 1980-90 34 1991-98 11 TOTAL: 58,193
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