Free World Military Forces
- Free World Military Forces
Free World Military Forces, or FWMF was a military force composed of a collective group of nations who sent troops to fight in Vietnam under the FWMF banner. The number of troops sent varied greatly, with nearly 50,000 from Korea, and only 10 from spain. Many of these nations fought under their own banners in the Vietnam War, but were part of the FWMF organization, or had troops fighting under both their own banner AND FWMF banners.
FWMF was formed similarly to the International Brigade of the Spanish Civil War, supporting American and South Vietnamese forces against the Vietcong.
Composition of FWMF forces
Koreans: 48,879
Thais: 11,568 [Hobbes, Nicholas "Essential Militaria", McArthur and Company, 2004]
Australians: 7,626
New Zealanders: 552
Taiwanese: 29
Spaniards: 30 (10 1966/1967 - 20 1967/1968) Medical and sanitary forces.
This comes to a total of 69,864 soldiers, over two thirds of them Korean. Altogether, the US contributed over 1.4 million troops to the Vietnam War.
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