Total Vietnam War Casualty numbers:
Anti-Communist Forces:South Vietnamese Strength:
850,000 United States of America Strength: 536,000 South Korean Strength: 50,000 Total Strength: 1,436,000 South Vietnamese Loses:
195,000 - 430,000 Civilian dead 171,331 - 220,357 Military dead 1,170,000 wounded United States of America Loses: 58,220 Military dead 303,644 wounded South Korean Loses: 5,099 dead 10,962 wounded Total Dead: 430,538 - 714,564 Total Wounded: 1,490,000+ |
Communist Forces:North Vietnamese Strength:
287,465 Soviet Union Strength: 3,000 Chinese Strength: 170,000 Total Strength: 460,465 North Vietnamese Loses:
50,000 - 65,000 Civilian dead 400,000 - 1,100,000 Military dead of missing Soviet Union Loses: 16 military dead Chinese Loses: 1,446 dead 4,200 wounded Total Dead: 451,462 - 1,166,462 Total Wounded: 604,200 |
"They were just people. Like you and me, except smaller and their eyes were different. That's all, they were not the monsters they were portrayed to be. I didn't want to kill them."