Archive Report
Archive Report
Continuing Debate Over War
Reassessment Since the 1973 U.S. Pullout
It was just over 10 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1973, that the United States, the Republic of (South) Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam signed an agreement in Paris “ending the war and restoring the peace in Vietnam.” Two months later, on March 29, after North Vietnam had released the last American prisoners of war, the final 2,500 U.S. troops boarded transport planes in Saigon and Da Nang and flew out of Vietnam. Thus came to an end direct American military involvement in a war that took the lives of nearly 58,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and cost the U.S. government about $164 billion.
Gen. Frederick C. Weyand, the commander of ...