Did more Americans die in World War 2 or Vietnam?

Answer 1

They were completely different kinds of wars.

All the WWII adversaries had regular armies, full artillery, competent and large air forces, extremely able navies. They fought very hard in regular warfare. There were twenty, or thirty or forty times as many of them as the there were Vietnamese fighting the US a generation later.

The Vietnam War was largely a guerrilla war. There were only a few instances during the entire US involvement in the war where US units were opposed by "NVA regulars". North Vietnamese Army regular troops. And the NVA were very, very light infantry, without adequate artillery, and no direct air support. They had no navy worth mentioning. The other main opponents were irregulars, the Viet Cong, un-uniformed, hiding out among the civilians, what's called "insurgents" today in Afghanistan and Iraq. Their main weapons were booby traps, and the occasional mortar round or rocket fired into US bases. One third of Americans lost were probably killed by friendly fire, as America used a howitzer to try to swat a fly. US forces were designed to fight those of the Soviet Bloc on the plains of Europe, and were ill-suited and poorly trained for a low-intensity conflict in southeast Asia.

Answer 2

What do u think smarts of course Vietnam we lost! WOW ur slow