Comment by mlyle
4 years ago
> Canada had MASH medical units
Are you sure you're not talking about Red Cross teams from Canada (not exactly Canadian troops).
> and theres even a canadian webpage listing medals award and names who served in Vietnam.
Aren't you talking about Canadian recipients of US medals (because they joined the US military)?
There were also those involved with the ICCS during the US withdrawal, various defense companies who sent contractors to work on equipment in Vietnam for their US customers, etc.
No, this was 20+ years ago, he had links and to canadian military websites. It wasnt the canadians who joined the US military or Red Cross.
If only his page still existed.
I don't think that this is actually true-- other than the ICRC, the small number of Canadian advisors at the beginning of the war, the small number of Canadian peacekeepers at the end, the extensive number of Canadian volunteers for US military service, and the employees of Canadian defense companies that travelled to Vietnam to support US equipment. There were also some humanitarian civilian missions.
There's tons of newspapers, etc, online from this period. It's hard to believe that no primary nor secondary source would have survived of what you're describing.
Too bad the wikipedia article comments are deleted.