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Here are some interesting facts from the Vietnam War. 9,087,000 military personnel served on active duty during the official Vietnam era from August 5 1964 to May 7, 1975. 2,709,918 Americans served in uniform                 at the Vietnam War. 240 men were awarded the medal of honor during the Vietnam War. James Davis was the first soldier to die in the Vietnam War in 1961. 23,214 were fully disabled, and 5,283 lost limbs. 61% of the people killed were under 21 years old. The average age of a man killed in the Vietnam War was 23.1 years. 11,465 of people killed were under the age of 20 years. 17,539 people died were married. 75,000 soldiers from both sides were severely disabled. 58,148 were killed in the Vietnam War from both sides of the war.

In the Vietnam War there was a variety of artillery used. The first type of artillery used was rifles used by all sides of the war. Some of the rifles used by armies were the M-1 Carbine, L1A1 SLR, M1 Garand, M14, and the M16A1. Another type of gun used were pistols. The kinds of pistols used were Browning High Power Pistol, Colt M19, Colt Model, Colt Commander, M1917 Revolver, Walther PPK, and the Smith&Wesson. All armies best gun used were the sub-machine guns. The machine guns used were the Thompson, M3 grease gun, Swedish K, Mac 10, Uzi, F1, Ownen gun, and the L2A1. The armies used various types of shotguns including the Winchester 1912, Ithaca 37, Remington 870, Winchester 1897, and the Remington 11-48. Each sides best carry weapon was their explosives. The types of explosives they used was the fragmentation grenade, M61 fragmentation grenade, WP M34 grenade, M18 grenade, claymore, and the M67 grenade.

The life and conditions in the Vietnam War was brutal and cruel. The Vietnam War lasted around 20 years, which is a very long time at war along with the horrible conditions they had. The soldiers at war had to deal with extreme heat conditions which caused dehydration for many soldiers. Lots of the soldiers were dehydrated, which was a cause for many deaths, and it effected there physical condition as well. Lots of soldiers that were dehydrated could not move around as well and function. The conditions were so bad that many of the soldiers got malaria. Many soldiers obtained the disease of malaria which caused many deaths and spread from one soldier to another. The weather conditions of the war kept on changing as well. It would be very hot on day and than the rain would not stop coming down. The war had a physiological effect on the troops, lots of Americans were dying which was effecting the will to fight and battle for other troops. 

In the Vietnam War, US Soldiers performed daily routine duties on their assigned weapons or equipment.  The job of a Tank Crew man had many tasks that needed to be done. Without these tasks the tanks would not be functional. which could of cause problems in the war. The loaders of the tank would drop the correct ammunition into the tank. The other members of the tank crew would clean, replace, and re-fill the gas. Some of the crew would adjust the wheels while the machine gun man would adjust the machine gun. Pilots in the Vietnam War had similar duties as the crew. Pilots would repair, clean, re-arm, and re-fuel their jets. The soldiers of the Vietnam War had all of the dirty jobs. They had jobs from going into battle, to making repairs. The soldiers would go out on patrols, search for enemies, perform maintenance, clean, re-fill, and re-arm vehicles.

The Vietnam war was started by a series between 1950 and 1965. In May 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized a modest program of economic and military aid to the French. The French  were fighting to retain control of their Indochina colony, including Laos and Cambodia as well as Vietnam. The Vietnamese Nationalist army defeated France in the Battle of Dienbienphu in 1954. Due to there loss in the battle France was forced into the creation of the Communist Vietnam north. The americans were not happy about this arangement so they conducted psychological warfare against the North. In 1961 the president sent 400 soldiers to South Vienam to train there army. When Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, there were more than 16,000 U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam, and more than 100 Americans had been killed. In August 1964, he secured from Congress a functional declaration of war. This is how the Vietnam War was started.

The Vienam war was fought in Vietnam, Laos,and Cambodia. It was fought from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975. The Vietnam War was fought after the First Indochina War. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong won in victory over the Americans and Allies. There was a total of  5,397,819 men who died including soldiers and civilians in the Vietnam War. There were 58,220 americans who died, and there were 303,644 that were wounded. Vietnam Republic had a total of 316,000 that were killed. There was a total of 1,170,000 wounded soldiers. North Vietnam had a total of 1,176,000 military members dead. They had a total of 600,000 plus soldiers wounded.