American Officers That Died During Vietnam - Statistics

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Noteable	Name	Branch	Rank	Date	Cause of Death	% Correct
Assistant Division Commander of the 1st Cavalry Division	Alfred J. F. Moody	Army	Brigadier General	19 March 1967	Heart Attack	100%
Served as the commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division at Fire Support Base Ripcord	Andre Lucas	Army	Lieutenant Colonel	July 23, 1970	KIA	100%
Served as commanding general, 3rd Marine Division	Bruno Hochmuth	Marine Corp	Major General	November 14, 1967	Helicopter Crash	100%
He was the commander of 937th Engineer Group	Carroll E. Adams	Army	Brigadier General	May 12, 1970	Killed in a UH-1 helicopter crash with 9 others	100%
took part in Operation Junction City, commanded the 173rd Support Battalion	Charles J. Watters	Army	Major	November 19, 1967	Bombing	100%
He played in the development of early battlefield evacuation techniques during the war, his death on the battlefield played in cementing those techniques in Army doctrine	Charles L. Kelly	Army	Major	July 1, 1964	KIA	100%
Assigned to MAAG 5	Dale R. Buis	Army	Major	July 8, 1959	Wounds	100%
He served as an advisor to the Vietnamese Marine Division, captured by viet cong	Donald Cook	Marine Corp	Colonel	December 8, 1967	MIA	100%
Prevented friendly air from bombing them, and sacrificed him self to get a pin on the enemy location to bomb them	Euripides Rubio	Army	Captain	November 8, 1966	Enemy Fire	100%
Command of the US 1st Cavalry Division at the time of his death, his son served as the 36th Chief of Staff of the United States Army from April 2007 to April 2011	George W. Casey Sr.	Army	Major General	July 7, 1970	Helicopter Crash	100%
He was the first U.S. Army soldier to be killed in the Vietnam War	Harry G. Cramer Jr.	Army	Captain	October 21, 1957	Ambushed	100%
Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on 3 January 2025	Hugh R. Nelson Jr.	Army	Captain	5 June 1966	KIA	100%
Executed by firing squad at the U Minh forest swamp and his body was left there as revenge for his insults to the Viet Cong	Humbert R. Versace	Army	Captain	September 26, 1965	POW	100%
He is written about in the book "Not Going Home Alone" by James J. Kirschke	James A. Graham	Marine Corp	Captain	June 2, 1967	Wounds	100%
Was assigned to South Vietnam as Chief of the Engineer Command	John A. B. Dillard	Army	Major General	May 12, 1970	Killed in a UH-1 helicopter crash with 9 others	100%
Organized his group's defense and repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire to rescue wounded soldiers	Joseph X. Grant	Army	Captain	November 13, 1966	Mortar Fire	100%
Commanded the 1st Infantry Division	Keith L. Ware	Army	Major General	13 September 1968	KIA	100%
Assistant professor of military science and University of Hawaii ROTC instructor, third Hawaiian to be killed during the Vietnam War	Kenneth N. Good	Army	Captain	January 2, 1963	KIA	100%
Finnish-born soldier who fought under three flags: as a Finnish Army officer, as a Waffen-SS captain, then a us major	Lauri Torni	Army	Major	18 October 1965	KIA	100%
"… the finest battlefield company commander I had ever seen, bar none." -Hal Moore	Myron F. Diduryk	Army	Major	April 24, 1970	Ambushed	100%
commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, appointed as chief of staff of Third Regional Assistance Command	Richard J. Tallman	Army	Brigadier General	July 9, 1972	Wounds	100%
He then served as commander of Company C, 2d Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division	Riley L. Pitts	Army	Captain	October 31, 1967	Wounds	100%
Volunteered to fly a lightly armed helicopter mission to rescue three dead US advisors and a wounded crew chief from a previously shot down helicopter crew chief from a besieged firebase in Kontum Province,	William E. Adams	Army	Major	May 25, 1971	Shot Down	100%
Participated in 27 major operations against the Viet Cong in the central highlands of Vietnam, and spent more than 300 days in the field	William G. Leftwich Jr.	Marine Corp	Lieutenant Colonel	November 18, 1970	Helicopter Crash	100%
killed eleven hours before the cessation of all hostilities in accordance with the Paris Peace Accords, last official American combat casualty	William Nolde	Army	Colonel	January 27, 1973	Artillery	100%
Commanded the 199th Infantry Brigade	William R. Bond	Army	Brigadier General	April 1, 1970	Sniper	100%
Capital Military Assistance Command, Saigon	Charles J. Girard	Army	Brigadier General	January 17, 1970	Illness	0%
Became the Operations Officer for 1st Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division, The New York Giants selected him in the 1956 NFL draft college draft.	Don Holleder	Army	Major	October 17, 1967	Sniper	0%
He served as an OH-6A "Loach" helicopter pilot, shot down over Cambodia	Jon E. Swanson	Army	Captain	February 26, 1971	Shot Down	0%

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