USA War
History; Causality Stats (Part 7)
Compiled and formatted;
By Michael
Smith April 2007 - Updated April 2008 & Sept.
2009
Casualties of War - Putting
American & the World's Casualties in Perspective
"War only makes
Sense for those making Cents"
The United States of America has a somewhat unique
relationship with war. While America is considered to be the most
militarily powerful country in the world today, Americans as a whole
have never experienced war in the way that many other countries of the
world have. There is a huge disparity between the American experience of
war and the global experience. This may have an impact on American
attitudes towards war. Presented below are various statistics on
causalities of war. The information is useful for reference material,
but it is also useful for gaining an understanding of the human cost of
war, and the cost of war for Americans compared to the rest of the
world, which may be helpful in understanding cultural attitudes about
war.
American & Allied Casualties
The total number of Americans killed in action from
all major wars combined, as listed below, is 2,757,196, which,
while a disheartening number, which is far less than the number of
Vietnamese killed in the Vietnam War alone.
America's allies in the Vietnam War
(Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and others) sustained casualties
in proportion to their troop strength in Southeast Asia. The greatest
casualties of any U.S. ally were suffered by the South Vietnamese
forces -- between 1960 and 1975, the war cost the South Vietnamese
military 275,000 combat deaths.
Hanoi acknowledges 1.1 million battle
deaths among their fighting forces. It is calculated that
approximately 3 to 6 million Vietnamese noncombatants were killed
by American forces.
The US lost approximately 58,000 men.
Watch the below Vietnam War
Video; What's Going On"
War
Duration in months
Revolutionary War
80
War of 1812
30
Mexican-American War
20
Civil War
48
Spanish-American War
4
World War I
19
World War II
44
Korean War
37
Vietnam War
The USA was actually involved in Vietnam for 30 years.
120+
Gulf War
1
War
Casualties
KIA
Revolutionary War
10,623
4,435
War of 1812
6,765
2,260
Mexican-American War
17,435
1,733
Civil War
970,227
184,594
Spanish-American War
4,108
385
World War I
320,710
53,513
World War II
1,078,162
292,131
Korean War
136,935
33,651
Vietnam War
211,471
47,369
Gulf War
760
148
World War I
Country
Military Personnel
Military Deaths
Military Casualties
Russia
12,000,000
1,700,000
9,150,000
Germany
11,000,000
1,773,700
7,142,558
Austria-Hungary
7,800,000
1,200,000
7,020,000
France
8,410,000
1,357,800
6,160,800
British Empire
8,904,467
908,371
3,190,235
Italy
5,615,000
650,000
2,197,000
Turkey
2,850,000
325,000
975,000
United States
4,355,000
126,000
364,800
Others
4,104,343
497,444
1,298,293
World War II
Deaths
Country
Military
Civilian
Total
Soviet Union
13,600,000
7,700,000
21,300,000
China
1,324,000
10,000,000
11,324,000
Germany
3,250,000
3,810,000
7,060,000
Poland
850,000
6,000,000
6,850,000
Japan
1,506,000
300,000
1,806,000
Yugoslavia
300,000
1,400,000
1,700,000
Rumania
520,000
465,000
985,000
France
340,000
470,000
810,000
Hungary
?
?
750,000
Austria
380,000
145,000
525,000
Greece
?
?
520,000
Italy
330,000
80,000
410,000
Czechoslovakia
?
?
400,000
Great Britain
326,000
62,000
388,000
USA
295,000
N/A
295,000
Holland
14,000
236,000
250,000
Belgium
10,000
75,000
85,000
Finland
79,000
?
79,000
Canada
39,000
N/A
39,000
India
36,000
?
36,000
Australia
29,000
N/A
29,000
Spain
12,000
10,000
22,000
Bulgaria
19,000
2,000
21,000
New Zealand
12,000
N/A
12,000
South Africa
9,000
N/A
9,000
Norway
5,000
?
5,000
Denmark
4,000
?
4,000
Total
23,289,000
30,755,000
55,714,000
(Note that Australian, British, French, Chinese,
Laotian, Cambodian, and several other nationalities were involved in the
Vietnam war as well, but I don't have their statistics shown here. Laos
is actually the most heavily bombed country in world history, and one
person is still killed by American bombs an average of every two days in
Laos currently, some 25 years after the war. It is estimated that it
will take another 100 years to completely rid Laos of all the unexploded
American ordinance that remains in the country.)
American dead - 58,169
Vietnamese killed in the war - 6,165,000+ Million
The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, also known as The
Wall, is 493 feet long, or almost 1/10th of a mile. A Vietnamese
equivalent to this memorial, including both North and South Vietnamese
military and civilians who were killed by the American military, would
be 9,903 feet, or almost 1.9 miles, long. This does not include disease
and starvation deaths, injuries, or South Vietnamese killed by the North
Vietnamese Army.
War, it only makes
sense for those making cents!
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