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To: Strategerist
WWI: 53,402 American battle deaths, plus 63,114 non-theater deaths.
WWII: 291,557 battle deaths. 113,842 non-theater deaths
Korea: 33,741 battle deaths. 2,827 other deaths in theater, 17,730 other non-theater deaths.
Vietnam: 47,410 battle deaths. 10,789 other deaths in theater, 32,000 non-theater deaths.
Gulf War: 147 battle deaths. 382 other deaths in theater, 1,565 non-theater deaths.

Source: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004615.html

9 posted on 12/12/2004 10:36:57 PM PST by Koblenz (Holland: a very tolerant country. Until someone shoots you on a public street in broad daylight...)
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To: Koblenz

Basically the same numbers I used except there seems to be an inconsistency...the "non-theater" deaths listed for WWI and WWII are "in-theater" but non battle deaths. (Disease mostly.)

And I have no idea where the 30,000 "non-theater" Vietnam deaths would come from.


13 posted on 12/12/2004 10:43:56 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Koblenz
Not to be crude or anything like that, but the total number of troops dead we suffered in WWI, WWI, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War I was 668,506 -- about 1/3rd of the casualties faced by Japan in WWII(1.7 million), about 1/5th of what Germany faced in WWII (3.25 million) and about 1/20th of what the Soviet Union lost in WWII (13.7 million)

It shows we do care a lot about our troops
19 posted on 12/12/2004 11:30:29 PM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11)
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