Three worldwide (pandemic) outbreaks of influenza. occurred in the 20th century: in 1918, 1957, and 1968. The. latter 2 were in the era of modern virology and most thor-. oughly characterized. All 3 have been informally identified. by their presumed sites of origin as Spanish, Asian, and.
Just south of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is the Vietnam Womenâs Memorial, which serves to commemorate the 265,000 women that served in the Vietnam War, many of whom worked as nurses.
Here are statistics from the Combat Area Casualty File (CACF) as of November 1993. The CACF is the basis for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall): Average age of 58,148 killed in Vietnam was 23.11 years. (Although 58,169 names are in the Nov. 93 database, only 58,148 have both event date and birth date.