Fifty Years After Saigon: Remembering the Nobility of a Betrayed Cause

[Soupnazi630]

At least two million in Vietnam, and that isn't counting Laos and Cambodia.

Liar

Most of the causalties were inflicted by the north especially on civilians. The communists STARTED the war

You REALLY need to be silent and learn the truth of history from people like me YOUR BETTERS

 

[AZrailwhale]

The PLAF yes - the PLA no, for good reasons. So Mao send the People's Volunteer Army (PVA) of which not even half were from the PLA and only armed with infantry weapons and light AA and some rare artillery units - their Unit leaders were from the PLA.
All the heavy weaponry was kept by the PLA. So the PVA acted against the American aggression in the guise of the UN.

I know the FACTS from dozens of Chinese-Korea veterans.

As for WIA - I wouldn't know - as for KIA less then 200,000, of which half did not die due to combat.

The “volunteer army” WAS the PLA. Every member was a combat veteran of the civil war. Naming it that was a transparent legal fiction to keep the UN from attacking China proper. As for the armament, the PLA was a light infantry army at the time, it had few heavy weapons and most of its tanks were either captured Japanese or American tanks that survived the civil war.

As for American aggression, it didn’t exist. North Korea launched an unprovoked invasion of the lightly armed South Korea. The Chinese launched an invasion when it looked to the Chinese like the UN forces were going to push the remains of the NKPA across the Yalu into China.