Vietnam War Almanac | The War's Effect on the Vietnamese Land and People

• U.S. bombing destroys farms and forests
• South Vietnamese people become refugees
• Transformation of Saigon
• Effects on the North
• Sources
• Words to Know
• Waiting for News of Death
• A Wall with Two Million Vietnamese Names

About 58,000 American soldiers were killed during the Vietnam War, and another 304,000 were wounded. Without a doubt, the war took a terrible toll on the United States. But since most of the fighting took place in Vietnam, the Vietnamese land and people paid a much heavier price for the war. An estimated 4 million Vietnamese were killed or...