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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...
Vietnam Forces National Memorial, Canberra. Beaudesert War Memorial. Cairns War Memorial. Esk War Memorial. Gair Park. Gympie Memorial Park. Sandgate War Memorial Park. Strathpine Honour Board. Tieri War Memorial.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. (VVMF), is the non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, a former Army Infantry in Vietnam. Others veterans joined including, Jack Wheeler, and several other graduates of West Point to finance the construction of a memorial to those Americans who served or died during the ...
The Battle of Ong Thanh was fought at the stream of that name (Ông Thành) on the morning of 17 October 1967, in Chơn Thành District, at the time part of Bình Dương Province, South Vietnam, today in Bình Phước Province . During the first few months of 1967, the Viet Cong (VC) absorbed heavy losses as a result of large-scale search and ...
444,000–666,000. Civilian deaths (North and South Vietnam) 405,000–627,000. Total deaths. 1,353,000. A 1995 demographic study in Population and Development Review calculated 791,000–1,141,000 war-related Vietnamese deaths, both soldiers and civilians, for all of Vietnam from 1965 to 1975.
For absorbing the blast of a malfunctioning grenade in order to protect his fellow Marines. Donald G. Cook †. Marine Corps. Captain. South Vietnam. December 31, 1964 – December 8, 1967. For assisting fellow prisoners while a prisoner of war. Ardie R. Copas †.
The Virtual Wall is an on-line Vietnam War memorial. The website opened on March 23, 1997 and is run by the not-for-profit organization, www.VirtualWall.org Ltd. The Virtual Wall has a separate memorial page for each casualty remembered. Each memorial page may contain one or more photographs, remembrances, graphics of military unit patches and ...
The Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial is on Anzac Parade, the principal ceremonial and memorial avenue in Canberra, the capital city of Australia. The memorial was dedicated on 3 October 1992. It commemorates the 50,000 Australian Army, Royal Australian Navy, and Royal Australian Air Force and associated personnel who served in ...