10 curiosities you may not know about the Vietnam War

1 - Vietnamese do not refer to the conflict as the Vietnam War, but the War of Resistance against America;

2 - The US military employed more than 5, 000 war dogs during the clash;

Between 1964 and 1973, the US Army dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on Laos - or the equivalent of sending a loaded plane firing explosives into the area every eight minutes for 9 years;

4 - After the war, Vietnamese farmers recycled thousands of US aircraft external tanks to use as boats and canoes;

5 - The US lieutenant responsible for murdering 70 to 80 Vietnamese civilians in the terrible incident known as the “May Lai Massacre” received pardon from President Richard Nixon and was released from house arrest;

In that same massacre, May Lai's, an American captain named Hugh Thompson Jr. ordered his men to point their weapons at US soldiers to protect Vietnamese civilians and stop the killing;

7 - During the Vietnam War, the US Army provided steroids, painkillers and amphetamines so that soldiers could "handle" combat better. To give you an idea, between 1966 and 1969, the US military consumed about 225 million stimulant pills;

But in addition to using drugs such as drugs, US soldiers consumed small amounts of a plastic explosive called C4 to get "high";

9 - It is estimated that 39% of US casualties suffered during the Vietnam War occurred through friendly fire;

10 - The military man who became famous for appearing in the “Execution in Saigon” photograph, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, moved to the United States after the war and opened a pizzeria.