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Vietnam War

The war in Vietnam in which the U.S. fought on the side of South Vietnam; the U.S. military casualty file begins in 1956.

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  • Lyndon B. Johnson President when the U.S. widened the war Primary record 1
  • United States government 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualty records (National Archives); Hanoi's 1995 figures: 1.1 million Communist fighters and nearly 2 million civilians dead Primary record 23

    Counters differ in scope; the figures are not added.

  • United States sent forces; its part ended with the Paris Peace Accords of January 1973 Primary record 4

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  1. Congressional Record, Senate, 10 October 2002 (debate on the Iraq resolution, H.J. Res. 114), U.S. Government Publishing Office, 10 Oct 2002. Primary record
    It was a war that destroyed the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson and wrecked the administration of Richard Nixon.
    It was this resolution that provided the basis for American involvement in the war in Vietnam.
  2. Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War), National Archives and Records Administration, 2008. Primary record
    The Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files contains records of 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War.
  3. Vietnam says 1.1 million died fighting for North (Associated Press, Hanoi, on figures published by the Vietnam News Agency), The Ledger-Star (Landmark Communications), from the Associated Press, 4 Apr 1995. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    Twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the government disclosed Monday that 1.1 million Communist fighters died and 600,000 were wounded in 21 years of conflict.
  4. Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin v. Dow Chemical Co., 517 F.3d 104 (2d Cir. 2008), No. 05-1953-cv, decided 22 February 2008, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 22 Feb 2008. Primary record Archived copy
    The Paris Peace Accords of January 1973 ended the United States’ participation in the Vietnam War.
    deployed by the United States military during the Vietnam War.
    The Paris Peace Accords of January 1973 ended the United States’ participation in the Vietnam War. After the fall of Saigon in 1975
  5. Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964 (Robert J. Hanyok, Cryptologic Quarterly, Winter 2000/Spring 2001; approved for release 3 Nov 2005), National Security Agency, 2001. Primary record
    which handed President Johnson the carte blanche charter he had wanted for future intervention in Southeast Asia.
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