Troop strength in vietnam dropped to 136 500 by 31 january 1972 to 119 600 by 29 february and then to 95 500 by the end of march.
Vietnam wall panels dec 1971 dec 1972.
A system analysis view of the vietnam war.
These volumes contain articles printed in the southeast asia analysis report from january 1967 to january 1972.
Veterans killed on their first day in vietnam 997 unconfirmed veterans killed on their last day in vietnam 1 448 unconfirmed number of chaplains on the wall 16 2 medal of honor number of women on the wall 8 7 army 1 usaf 7 484 served there are 226 native americans on the memorial.
Operation proud deep alpha.
The virtual wall of faces features a page dedicated to honoring and remembering every person whose name is inscribed on the vietnam veterans memorial in washington d c.
At the bottom of this page you can read about.
Volume 2 forces and manpower.
There are 22 countries represented on the memorial.
Air attacks since november 1968.
Click a date or panel number below to see the names on that panel of the wall.
Dec 1 jan 31 72.
The vietnam veterans memorial in washington d c.
Has the names listed in chronological order by date of loss.
Richard nixon and nguyen van thieu announce an eight point peace plan for vietnam.
1 january may 1971.
Project copper was an unsuccessful operation to use three central intelligence agency cia trained cambodian irregular force battalions to interdict the sihanouk trail one battalion deserted one mutinied during training and the third suffered extensive casualties and had to.
Some names were recently added to the wall.
101st airborne division redeployment from south vietnam to the united states.
During the last week of december 1971 u s.
These alphabetical indexes are for your convenience but do not represent the order of names on the wall.
Military personnel in south vietnam totaled 334 600 on 31 december 1970.
Military casualties in southeast asia deaths by calendar year year of death may either be actual or based on a presumptive finding of death originally declared missing and later declared dead as of march 31 1997 since 1997 93 names have been added to the memorial that are not show in the stats below.
Air force and navy planes carried out 1 000 strikes on north vietnam the heaviest u s.
Their proposal is again snubbed by hanoi.
Index to panels of the vietnam veterans memorial wall.
The panel pages link to memorial pages for each person.
The year 1971 ends with just over 156 000 us military personnel still in vietnam.
In an effort to further preserve the legacy of those who sacrificed all in vietnam vvmf is committed to finding a photo to go with each of the more than 58 000 names on the wall.
Dec 26 30.
Volume 3 viet cong north vietnamese operations.
Memorial pages honoring vietnam war casualties listed by their last names.
Volume 1 the situation in southeast asia.
The order of the names and some names are missing.