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John Sibley Butler. The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of blacks ever to serve in an American war. During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, who formed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam.
The number of Americans serving in the military is a small slice of the U.S. population. Here, a graphical look at the makeup of the military and the sacrifices those troops have made. Data for World War II casualties runs from Dec. 1, 1941, through Dec. 31, 1946, when President Truman officially terminated hostilities. A few battle deaths and wounds were incurred after the Japanese surrender in 1945. Data on deaths in Vietnam covers the period from Nov. 1, 1955, through May 15, 1975, when the last American service member left Southeast Asia. Data on those wounded excludes 150,332 people not requiring hospital care.