2007-09-27 06:08:31 · 7 answers · asked by billy c 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I was there as a Ranger in '66 and '67 in the North with the Hmong in the Northern highlands training them, I was wounded twice.
Mo was the most accurate. I'd like to know where that history teacher got all his/her information because it's totally wrong. So is most of the others. All of my fist cousins were there also from about '68 through to a friend in '73 do you remember seeing that huge Marine leaving from a gunship from the top of the American Embassies, the last chopper out, it's on every news clip, he lives right by me and I see him everyday.
My cousin was in Cambodia when that crap faced President Nixon told the American people we were not, they were getting shot at.
2007-09-27 07:25:20 · answer #1 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia came in later, then the militias from unknown areas, to become very well known such as Commare Rouge, Switzerland was never involved, history has been confirmed they were still a neutral country.
America and Australian troops were the predominant, a mortality rate of 58,000 US and 52,00 Aust troops.
Generally it says the total death toll is about 2.5 million casualties, 4.5 if you want to believe McNamara's "Fog of War" but then he doesn't seem to think Australia was ever there.
People who were not suppose to be there were the French, which is part of the reason why the war happened, and the Israelis.
Apart living through that period of time, I also have manuscripts of action from a Ranger who did three terms there as a sniper.
With all the disinformation that is around, it is best to be specific, especially when all the vets including all civilians still live that nightmare to this day, the war did not stop for them August 18, 1975.
2007-09-27 06:37:49 · answer #2 · answered by mo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
North/South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
2007-09-27 07:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by Ruthinia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia definitely. And perhaps, Burma and Thailand, to some degree, although even more "secretly" than L and C.
2007-09-27 06:12:01 · answer #4 · answered by drakke1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow cowboy doc.I remember seeing a programme about the evacuation in Saigon at the embassy.They just got out in time.Is is true the last people didn't think they were coming back to get them?
That whole thing was disturbing,such a need of urgency,they were lucky to make it no?
2007-09-27 07:34:06 · answer #5 · answered by Equal Animal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pakistan and Switzerland were on the Vietcongs side. The Gambia, Tonga, Sweden and Bermuda were on USA's side.
2007-09-27 06:16:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
south korea had some of the some of the best fighters there.......tigers
2007-09-27 06:30:19 · answer #7 · answered by Manofthewest 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋