Saturday, May 27, 1972
Report 8 GIs Killed, 7 Missing In Combat
SAIGON (AP) --Eight Americans were killed in action in Vietnam last week and seven were missing, the U.S. command announced Thursday. It said another nine Americans died of nonhostile causes, including air crashes not due to enemy action, and 22 were wounded.The total of 24 dead or missing was 12 less than the week before, when 13 men were reported killed in action, 18 died of nonhostile causes, five were missing and 26 were wounded.Casualties among both North and South Vietnamese continued to increase due to the North Vietnamese offensive.The Saigon command reported 757 South Vietnamese troops killed last week, 2,351 wounded and 214 missing in action. This was an increase of seven killed and 32 wounded compared to the previous week, but the number of missing was 130 less.The government claimed 4,028 enemy killed and 106 captured last week, compared to 3,613 killed and 56 captured the week before.Total casualties for the war, according to the allied commands are:--American, 45,755 killed in action, 303,031 wounded, 1,590 missing or captured, 10,179 dead from nonhostile causes, and 140 missing not as a result of hostile action, most of these being troops killed in air accidents in which the bodies have not been recovered or have not been identified.--South Vietnamese, 143,484 killed in action; 365,718 wounded.--North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, 835,691 killed."Report 8 GIs Killed, 7 Missing in Combat", by (AP), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes Saturday, May 27, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.