- ^ Since July 1937
- ^ a b From August 1945
- ^ Although Japan had been invading China since 1937, war was not officially declared. Japan would later attack Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, which brought the contained war in China into the wider global conflict.[1]
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Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Robert McNamara William Westmoreland Creighton Abrams Ngo Dinh Diem † Nguyen Van Thieu Nguyen Cao Ky Cao Van Vien Souvanna Phouma Lon Nol Park Chung Hee Chae Myung-shin Robert Menzies Harold Holt Thanom Kittikachorn | ||||||||
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Hinrich Lohse Hans-Adolf Prützmann Friedrich Jeckeln Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
Estonia: Karl-Siegmund Litzmann Hinrich Möller Walther Schröder
Hjalmar Mäe Johannes Soodla Arnold Sinka
Latvia: Otto-Heinrich Drechsler Walther Schröder
Oskars Dankers Voldemārs Veiss † Rūdolfs Bangerskis
Lithuania: Adrian von Renteln Lucian Wysocki Hermann Harm Kurt Hintze
Petras Kubiliūnas Antanas Špokevičius Povilas Plechavičius
Belarus: Wilhelm Kube † Curt von Gottberg Jakob Sporrenberg Carl Zenner Karl Schäfer Erich Ehrlinger
Radasłaŭ Astroŭski Francišak Kušal Ivan Yermachenka
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- ^ "Name of Technical Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon to be added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial". Department of Defense (DoD). Archived from the original on 20 October 2013.
- ^ Lawrence, A.T. (2009). Crucible Vietnam: Memoir of an Infantry Lieutenant. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4517-2.
- ^ Olson & Roberts 2008, p. 67.
- ^ "Chapter 5, Origins of the Insurgency in South Vietnam, 1954–1960". The Pentagon Papers (Gravel Edition), Volume 1. Boston: Beacon Press. 1971. Section 3, pp. 314–346. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2008 – via International Relations Department, Mount Holyoke College.
- ^ The Paris Agreement on Vietnam: Twenty-five Years Later (Conference Transcript). Washington, DC: The Nixon Center. April 1998. Archived from the original on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2012 – via International Relations Department, Mount Holyoke College.
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