CASUALTY RECORD // Nov 1965
Ia Drang
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 1,037–1,745 estimated
North Vietnam
1,037–1,745
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
Air-mobile doctrine tested at scale
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Arc Light 1965–1966
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Baptism -- A Vietnam Memoir
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Chickenhawk
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Chiến Trường Mới, Hồi Ức
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The Ghosts of the Green Grass
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The Siege of Pleime
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Vietnam Air Losses: USAF, USN, USMC, Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in Southeast Asia 1961–1973
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We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young—Ia Drang: The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
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