| Branch Killed Wounded | Navy 62,614 37,778 | Marines 24,511 68,207 | Coast Guard 1,917 Unknown | TOTAL 407,316 671,278 |
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As of now, the total deaths in America: 527,726 . That’s more deaths than in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and 9/11 combined.”
The combat fatality rate fell from 55 to 12 percent between the start of World War II and the most recent conflicts, as did the KIA rate (52 to 5 percent).
The Civil War maintains the highest American casualty total of any conflict. In its first 100 years of existence, over 683,000 Americans lost their lives, with the Civil War accounting for 623,026 of that total (91.2%).
| War (and years of U.S. military involvement) Number of fatalities | American Civil War (1861-1865) 620,000 | World War II (1939-1945) 405,399 | World War I (1917-1918) 116,516 | Vietnam War (1965-1973) 58,209 |
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The sheer incompetence and corruption of the Chinese government added millions of victims to the millions raped and murdered by the Japanese . ... Without the war, the Chinese Communists would never have defeated the Nationalists. The Sino-Japanese War killed between 14 and 20 million Chinese people.
| Number or Ratio Description | 750,000 Total number of deaths from the Civil War 2 | 504 Deaths per day during the Civil War | 2.5 Approximate percentage of the American population that died during the Civil War | 7,000,000 Number of Americans lost if 2.5% of the American population died in a war today |
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Vietnam was an unmitigated disaster, the only war the US has ever lost.
The deadliest earthquake in human history is at the heart of the deadliest day in human history. On January 23, 1556 , more people died than on any day by a wide margin.
| Rank War or conflicts Duration | 1 Reconquista 781 years | 2 Anglo-French Wars 748 years | 3 Byzantine-Bulgarian wars 715 years | 4 Roman–Persian Wars 681 years |
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A total of 708 African Americans were killed in combat during World War II.
Over 7,000 U.S. service members and over 8,000 contractors have died in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
| Campaign Dead Missing | West until May 31, 1944 66,266 3,218 |
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A postwar investigation found Japanese accounts that said he was interrogated and then thrown overboard with weights attached to his feet, drowning him.
JAPANESE troops practised cannibalism on enemy soldiers and civilians in the last war , sometimes cutting flesh from living captives, according to documents discovered by a Japanese academic in Australia. ... He has also found some evidence of cannibalism in the Philippines.
| Country Total population 1/1/1939 Total deaths | Japan 71,380,000 2,500,000 to 3,100,000 | Korea (Japanese colony) 24,326,000 483,000 to 533,000 | Latvia (within 1939 borders) 1,994,500 250,000 | Lithuania (within 1939 borders) 2,575,000 370,000 |
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