400,000 soldiers and civilians died in France’s invasion of Indochina. 90,000 French, 175,000 Viet Minh, and over 125,000 civilians.
Over 1,000,000 Communist militants died, NLF guerrillas and PAVN regulars alike. Approximately 300,000 ARVN military personnel were killed, the majority regional militiamen. 58,000 American soldiers died, of which 21,000 died during Nixon and Kissinger’s “negotiations”. At a conservative estimate, 285,000 civilians in South Vietnam died in the crossfire. Another 65,000 civilians in North Vietnam were killed by US bombing raids.
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There were no heroes in the Vietnam War. As all civil wars go, both sides waged war with tremendous brutality. The Viet Cong were not „freedom fighters“:
>Some of the many murder victims of 1960 were tried and dispatched with machetes in front of village crowds. One woman was hacked to death because she had two sons in the ARVN. A man being buried alive shrieked repeatedly, “I’m going to die! I’m going to die!” before his cries faded beneath a rising mound of earth.
>The Vietcong once entered a village in Lai Cay, denounced twenty inhabitants as government spies, beheaded them, and threw the bodies in the street, each with a scrap of paper attached listing their alleged crimes. Elsewhere a hamlet chief was tied to a stake and disemboweled in front of the assembled villagers; his pregnant wife was eviscerated, their children beheaded.
Neither were the Americans:
>In 1968-69, Ewell commanded the 9th Division in the Mekong Delta. Ewell rejected the findings of the MACV inspector general that seven thousand civilians perished in his formation’s six-month-long Operation Speedy Express. Ewell said, “You get a sapper unit mining the road and you kill two or three, and they’ll knock it off. These people can count. And boy when you line up them bodies, their enthusiasm is highly reduced. That’s the way we opened up Highway 4. Just killing them.”
>“We returned a tremendous barrage of fire, and began to withdraw. I saw women and children in front of us being hit and cut to pieces. I heard their cries and other voices in the darkness as we made our retreat”. When they approached the hamlet proper, the SEALs herded together and shot another fifteen inhabitants, mostly women and children. A screaming baby was the last to die.
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I would actually like to know how that specific engagement turned out for the French paratroopers.
Watching all those units fill the sky and float down looks overwhelming from the ground perspective
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Slide 9 might be the coolest photo I’ve never seen before. Wow, what a shot
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Great photos per usual
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400,000 soldiers and civilians died in France’s invasion of Indochina. 90,000 French, 175,000 Viet Minh, and over 125,000 civilians.
Over 1,000,000 Communist militants died, NLF guerrillas and PAVN regulars alike. Approximately 300,000 ARVN military personnel were killed, the majority regional militiamen. 58,000 American soldiers died, of which 21,000 died during Nixon and Kissinger’s “negotiations”. At a conservative estimate, 285,000 civilians in South Vietnam died in the crossfire. Another 65,000 civilians in North Vietnam were killed by US bombing raids.
There were no heroes in the Vietnam War. As all civil wars go, both sides waged war with tremendous brutality. The Viet Cong were not „freedom fighters“:
>Some of the many murder victims of 1960 were tried and dispatched with machetes in front of village crowds. One woman was hacked to death because she had two sons in the ARVN. A man being buried alive shrieked repeatedly, “I’m going to die! I’m going to die!” before his cries faded beneath a rising mound of earth.
>The Vietcong once entered a village in Lai Cay, denounced twenty inhabitants as government spies, beheaded them, and threw the bodies in the street, each with a scrap of paper attached listing their alleged crimes. Elsewhere a hamlet chief was tied to a stake and disemboweled in front of the assembled villagers; his pregnant wife was eviscerated, their children beheaded.
Neither were the Americans:
>In 1968-69, Ewell commanded the 9th Division in the Mekong Delta. Ewell rejected the findings of the MACV inspector general that seven thousand civilians perished in his formation’s six-month-long Operation Speedy Express. Ewell said, “You get a sapper unit mining the road and you kill two or three, and they’ll knock it off. These people can count. And boy when you line up them bodies, their enthusiasm is highly reduced. That’s the way we opened up Highway 4. Just killing them.”
>“We returned a tremendous barrage of fire, and began to withdraw. I saw women and children in front of us being hit and cut to pieces. I heard their cries and other voices in the darkness as we made our retreat”. When they approached the hamlet proper, the SEALs herded together and shot another fifteen inhabitants, mostly women and children. A screaming baby was the last to die.
I would actually like to know how that specific engagement turned out for the French paratroopers.
Watching all those units fill the sky and float down looks overwhelming from the ground perspective
Slide 9 might be the coolest photo I’ve never seen before. Wow, what a shot
Great photos per usual