(Chiến tranh Việt Nam) |Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold
War| A Bell UH-1D helicopter piloted by Major Bruce P. Crandall
climbs skyward after discharging a load of U.S. infantrymen on a
search and destroy mission |Anti-Communist forces:||Communist
forces:| |Commanders and leaders| | Ngô Đình Diệm Nguyễn Văn
Thiệu Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Cao Văn Viên Ngô Quang Trưởng John F.
Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Chae Myung Shin | Hồ Chí Minh Võ
Nguyên Giáp Văn Tiến Dũng Lê Trọng Tấn Phạm Văn Đồng Hoàng Văn
Thái Trần Văn Trà Nguyễn Văn Linh Nguyễn Hữu Thọ North Vietnam:
287,465 (January 1968) |Casualties and losses| | South Vietnam
195,000–430,000 civilian dead 171,331–220,357 military dead
1,170,000 wounded Total dead: 430,538–714,564 | North Vietnam &
Viet Cong 50,000-65,000 civilian dead 400,000–1,100,000 military
dead or missing Total dead: 451,462–1,166,462 Vietnamese
civilian dead: 245,000–2,000,000 The Vietnam War (Vietnamese:
Chiến tranh Việt Nam) was a Cold War-era military conflict that
occurred in Vietnam, Laos, an