Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Leave a tribute, a story or photograph about any of the 58,256 veterans killed or missing in the Vietnam War.

See how

• All names by any category (58,256)
• Enlistment type: Regular(34,820), Selective Service(17,848), Reserve(5,842) or National Guard(97)
• Service: Army(38,641), Marine Corps(15,003), Air Force(2,611), Navy(2,584), Coast Guard(7)
• Hometown: New York(1,385), Chicago(973), Philadelphia(628), Detroit(533), Baltimore(422)

Newly digitized Vietnam photos from The National Archives

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Browse Photographs of Marine Corps Activities in Vietnam
Facts about The Interactive Wall

• At full size, The Wall image on Footnote is about 460 feet wide (400,000 pixels wide by 12,500 pixels tall).
• We found 58,320 names inscribed on The Wall.
• There are about 70 names which are duplicates or misspellings... -->
• 26 names are listed as "not KIA". -->
• 8 names are women.
• 2,056 are listed as "body not recovered."
• Average age is 22.8 years old.
• 6,301 images were photographed by Peter Krogh
• Darren Higgins used six computers to stitch 1,494 images into a single 5 gigapixel image of The Wall.

Other Vietnam sites

• Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
• National Park Service Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• The Wall-USA
• The Vietnam Veterans Memorial page on Wikipedia

Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Vietnam Wall) : Footnote.com