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Nmero de americanos en los Ejrcitos durante los aos de las hostilidades con Vietnam: 8,744,000
Nmero de americanos en los Ejrcitos durante la 2 Guerra Mundial: 16,354,000
Nmero de americanos que sirvieron en ultramar durante la 2 Guerra Mundial: 11,938,420
Nmero de americanos que sirvieron en Vietnam: 2,700,000
Edad media del personal combatiente de EE.UU. en Vietnam: 19
Edad media del personal combatiente de EE.UU. en la 2 Guerra Mundial: 27
Quines eran?
Porcentaje de combatientes en Vietnam que provenan de debajo de la lnea de Mason Dixon :28
Nmero de soldados de Puerto Rico enviados a Vietnam: 34,700
Porcentaje de poblacin de EE.UU. que era afroamericana en los 60: 11
Porcentaje de soldados en secciones de combate que eran afroamericanos: 20
Porcentaje de personal de EE.UU. en Vietnam de clases trabajadoras o estrato social bajo: 80
Nmero de mujeres militares que sirvieron en Vietnam: 193,000
Refusing to Fight
Number who avoided draft due to physical, mental or moral exemption5,276,000
Number who avoided draft due to student deferment371,000
Number of conscientious objectors171,700
Number of eligible men who did not register for the draft250,000
Number who spent time in prison3250
Number of Americans who went into exile to avoid military service50,000
Number of Marines, per one thousand, who deserted in 196616.1
Number of Marines, per one thousand, who deserted in 197156.1
Casualties
Number of US servicemen killed in combat in Vietnam47,072
Number of US servicemen killed in combat who were officers5,741
Number of US enlisted men killed in combat41,331
Number of US servicemen killed outside of combat in Vietnam10,449
Number of US servicemen wounded in Vietnam313,616
Number classified as seriously wounded153,300
Percentage of those seriously wounded who were saved82
Percentage of wounded who died after arriving at hospital2.6
Number of US servicemen who lost at least one limb10,000
Number of US servicemen killed in Laos and Cambodia81
1965-Percentage of the casualties in Vietnam who were African American25
1967-Percentage of the casualties in Vietnam who were African American13.5
Percentage of US servicemen who claim to have witnessed their comrades being killed or wounded56%
Number of American journalists stationed in Vietnam from 1954-19752,000
Number of American journalists killed in Vietnam from 1954-197544
Number of American journalists reported missing in Vietnam from 1954-197518
Fragging and Friendly Fire
Number of probable explosive-device assaults against officers by US servicemen788
Number of NCOs and Officers killed by their own troops86
Number of NCOs and Officers wounded by their own troops714
South Vietnamese
Number of South Vietnamese military personnel killed during the war220,357
Number of South Vietnamese military personnel wounded during the war499,000
Number of South Vietnamese military personnel who deserted between 1965 and 1972840,000
Average monthly wages paid to a South Vietnamese soldier in 1968$108
Average monthly wages paid to a North Vietnamese soldier in 1968$.75
North Vietnamese and Vietcong
Number of North Vietnamese military personnel and Vietcongreported to have died in combat444,000
Vietnamese Civilians
Estimated number of Vietnamese civilians killed in the war587,000
Estimated number of Vietnamese civilians wounded in the war935,000
Weapons
Average number of artillery rounds expended in one day by the US in Vietnam10,000
Cost per artillery round$100
Cost per day$1,000,000
Cost of one sortie for a B-52 bomber$30,000
Number of US helicopters lost during the war4865
Cost per helicopter$250,000
Total tonnage of bombs dropped over North Vietnam,South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos8,000,000
Amount of the damage, in dollars, inflicted on North Vietnam by US bombing raids$600,000,000
Cost of US bombing raids on North Vietnam$6,000,000,000
Amount of aid, in dollars, provided to North Vietnam and the Vietcongby the Soviet Union and China$3,000,000,000
Drug Use
Percentage of US soldiers in Vietnam who used marijuanaoccasionally or frequently in 196925
Number of arrests for marijuana possession by US military police in 19691,000 per week
Estimated number of American heroin users in Vietnamas reported by 1974 White House survey81,300
Estimated number of heroin users in the USas reported by a 1974 White House survey68,000