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V'nam Casualties by Race, Ethnicity and Natl Origin. Of all enlisted men who died in V'nam, blacks made up 14.1% of the total. This came at a time when they made up 11.0% of the young male population nationwide. If we add officer casualties to enlisted then the black percentage is reduced to 12.5% of all casualties.
Memorial pages honoring Vietnam War casualties, listed by their last names. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. has the names listed in chronological order by date of loss. These alphabetical indexes are for your convenience but do not represent the order of names on the Wall. A.
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Vietnam War: share of U.S. military deaths by race or ethnicity 1964-1975. Published by. Olan McEvoy , Feb 2, 2024. The United States military has a long history of ethnic minorities serving in ...
Vietnam War Military Casualties, 1956-1998 more than 100,000 listings. Vietnam War, Casualties Returned Alive, 1962-1979. Vietnam War, Awards and Decorations of Honor, 1965-1972. U.S. Army Personnel and Dependent Casualties, 1961-1981 85% of the records in this database are related to the Vietnam Conflict.
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Mar 12, 2018 · T he Vietnam Veterans Memorial is names — more than 58,000 names of men and women who were killed or missing in action during the Vietnam War. When you visit the Memorial, the sheer volume of names is inescapable. Millions of people visit The Wall each year. For some, it is another stop on an agenda filled with tourist attractions.
Michael Giannini was one of Altimari’s neighbors and graduated Father Judge in 1961. Giannini was studying business administration and attending night classes at Temple University when he was drafted to fight in Vietnam in 1965. He served in the U.S. Army as a First Lieutenant until he was Killed-in-Action on March 16, 1967 in the Tay Ninh ...
