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The press reported heavily on the "mixed" capabilities of the South Vietnamese defense and on the retaliatory U.S. bombing effort in North Vietnam, Operation Linebacker. [66] Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird declined to criticize the negative reporting, which he described as "generally balanced." [67]
An estimate by the Department of Defense after the war gave a figure of 1.2 million civilian casualties, including 195,000 deaths. [1] According to statistics from the South Vietnamese Ministry of Health, 44.5% of civilians admitted to hospitals between 1967 and 1970 were wounded by mines or mortars, 21.2% by guns or grenades, and 34.3% by ...
The Vietnam War body count controversy centers on the counting of enemy dead by the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War (1955–1975). There are issues around killing and counting unarmed civilians ( non-combatants) as enemy combatants, as well as inflating the number of actual enemy who were killed in action (KIA).
The Garden of the Missing in Action in the National Military and Police Cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Missing in action ( MIA) is a casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains, combat medics, and prisoners of war who are reported missing during wartime or ceasefire.
On 3 September, a B-52G (tail number 57‑6493) with the 68th Bombardment Wing out of Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina crashed between Aiken and Williston, South Carolina. While cruising at 28,000 feet (8,500 m), a fuel leak was experienced in the starboard wing which caused a structural failure of the wing, parting between the third and ...
Lisa Labelle discovered a lot up for sale with the perfect view of the Lincoln County Hills in North Carolina and decided to buy it — hiring a construction group to build her a $429,580 home.
The Battle of Guilford Court House was on March 15, 1781, during the American Revolutionary War, at a site that is now in Greensboro, the seat of Guilford County, North Carolina. A 2,100-man British force under the command of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis defeated Major General Nathanael Greene 's 4,500 Americans.
A 30-year-old convicted murderer escaped from custody while being transported to a North Carolina hospital, the sheriff's office announced. ... In a 4:30 p.m. press conference, Orange County ...