From the June 5, 2013, CNN U.S. "By the numbers: U.S. war veterans."
I am doing this for all U.S. wars in my Cooter's History Thing Blog right now.
WORLD WAR II (1941-1945)
Total in Service: 16,112,566
Casualties: Dead-- 405,399 (291,557 in battle) Wounded-- 670,846
Estimated Living (as of June 2013): 1,711,050
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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