Women in the Vietnam War other humanitarian organisations. In addition to Australia, Canada sent a significant amount of re-enforcements to Vietnam on behalf the Americans. By the end of the war, some 30,000 Canadian citizens had volunteered their service, and nearly 140 of them had been killed in action. It is unknown how many of these 30,000 were women, but not all 30,000 had directly served in combat. Canada’s main role during the conflict was for the purposes of peacekeeping and monitoring the cease-fire agreements made during the Paris Peace Conference. Women in the Vietnam War During the Vietnam War, nearly 11,000 Vietnamese women and
1973 in the Vietnam War by North Vietnam. Three C-141A transports flew to Hanoi, North Vietnam, and one C-9A aircraft was sent to Saigon, South Vietnam to pick up released prisoners of war. The first flight of 40 U.S. prisoners of war left Hanoi in a C-141A, later known as the "Hanoi Taxi" and now in a museum. From February 12 to April 4, there were 54 C-141 missions flying out of Hanoi, bringing the former POWs home. In Laos the government and the communist Pathet Lao signed a cease fire agreement. The agreement was violated frequently, but by the end of April most fighting