The Vietnam War
facts and figures
Facts on the Vietnam War, Courtesy TAOR
Newsletter for WAA Melbourne Sub-Branch
Estimated casualties - 5 773 190
Estimated killed - 2 122 244
Dust-off missions - 500 000
Patients airlifted from battlefields -
900000
Assassinations (SV) - 36 725
Abductions (SV) - 58 499
Estimated SV civilians killed - 587 000
SV military personnel killed - 220,357
Defoliants used (litres) - 72 000 000
Area sprayed (acres) - 3 500 000
Helicopters used - 12 000
PAGE 24-MUFTI, December 2002
Helicopters downed (enemy fire) - 4 865
Average age of WW11 soldier - 26
Average age Australian soldier in Vietnam -20
Americans killed 58 169
Australians killed - 504
Americans less than 20 y.o. killed 11464
Americans severely disabled - 75 000
Ammunition expended monthly - 71000
Average artillery rounds expended each day in Vietnam - 10 000
The number of Australians registered for National Service in Australia - 804 000
Of those who were called up - 63 000
Of those who went to Vietnam - 18 000
USAF missions over Vietnam -
Tonnage of bombs dropped - 6 7 094
WWII bombs dropped on Germany
2700000
Fixed wing aircraft lost in Via~ - 375
US airmen lost in Vietnam - 8040
B-52's lost to enemy action - 18
B-52's lost in collisions / accidents - 13
Field rations consumed each month
10 million
Litres of petroleum used per month
303 million
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