Vietnam War Statistics
Personnel
9,087,000 military personnel served on active duty during the Vietnam Era (28 February 1961 - 7 May 1975)
8,744,000 personnel were on active duty during the war (5 August 1964-28 March 1973)
3,403,100 (including 514,300 offshore) personnel served in the SE Asia
Theater (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, flight crews based in Thailand and sailors
in adjacent South China Sea waters).
2,594,000 personnel served within the borders of South Vietnam
( I January 1965 - 28 March 1973)
Another 50,000 men served in Vietnam between 1960 and 1964
Of the 2.6 million, between 1 and 1.6 million (40-60%) either fought in
combat, provided close combat support or were at least fairly regularly
exposed to enemy attack.
7,484 women served in Vietnam, of whom 6,250 or 83.5% were nurses.
Peak troop strength in Vietnam was 543,482, on 30 April 1969.
Approximately 2,594,000 US Servicemen served in country during the Vietnam War.
1,736,000 were US Army
391,000 were US Marines
293,000 were US Airmen
174,000 were US Sailors (this figure includes the US Coast Guard)
Casualties:
Hostile deaths: 47,359
Non-hostile deaths: 10,797
Total: 58,156 (including men formerly classified as MIA and Mayaguez
casualties).
Highest state death rate: West Virginia--84.1. (The national average death
rate for males in 1970 was 58.9 per 100,000).
WIA: 303,704 - 153,329 required hospitalization, 50,375 who did not.
Severely disabled: 75,000, 23,214 were classified 100% disabled. 5,283 lost
limbs, 1,081 sustained multiple amputations.
Amputation or crippling wounds to the lower extremities were 300% higher than
in WWII and 70% higher than in Korea. Multiple amputations occurred at the
rate of 18.4% compared to 5.7% in WWII.
MIA: 2,338
POW: 766, of whom 114 died in captivity.
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Regular Forces: 410,000
Territorial Militias: 532,000
- Regional Forces: 284,000
- Popular Force: 248,000
Total: 942,000 in 1972[1]
