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WWII men fought the good war. Vietnam returnees were treated as losers.
A total of 58,168 American soldiers died in Vietnam during the Vietnam War!!
49 000 soldiers were sent to fight in the Vietnam war.
The Vietnam war effected soldiers physically with strain of fighting in the jungle but it also effected soldiers psychological mind set. Soldiers were pulled out of school and work at the age of 17 and thrown into the war. The soldiers had to drink and smoke marijuana to deal with the war. It was hard for soldiers to come back for war and make a life.
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The soldiers there kind of stayed and married women there and they gave birth to vietnam-americans.
Yes, during WW1 and WW2, there was no conscriprtion (compulsory military service). Soldiers went to war by choice. But in the Vietnam war, conscription was introduce in Australia and the soldiers were forced for the Vietnam war to go and fight.
President Eisenhower sent US Military Advisers to South Vietnam in 1955.
In America. the American soldiers? No. In Vietnam - the Vietnamese Viet-Cong? Yes.
I'm not sure , but i once was told that 10 maltese soldiers went to the vietnam war, but don't count on me, i'm not sure. thanks.
Hostility, both physical and verbal, rejection, and discrimination.
Probably about 150,000 ROKs served in the Viet War. The ROKs were the second largest allied force in the war.
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Not all of the ROKs (Republic of South Korea) were soldiers, some may have been ROK Marines. ROK deployed approximately 150,000 fighting men to RVN (Republic of South Vietnam) during the war.
Approximately 2,594,000 US Servicemen served in the Vietnam War.
Draftees served their two years for Uncle Sam; one year tour in Vietnam, then went home. Usually going to college on the GI bill.