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During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in action. [342] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [343]
Photo by Ernest Brooks. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths [ 1] and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history. The total number of deaths includes from 9 to 11 million military ...
Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle during these wars recorded by Greek writers, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Punic Wars. 1,620,000–1,920,000+. 264 BC–146 BC. Roman Republic vs. Carthaginian Empire. Western Europe / North Africa. First Punic War.
Similarly, the ABMC Records do not cover inter-war deaths such as the Port Chicago disaster in which 320 died. As of June 2018 total of US World War II casualties listed as MIA is 72,823 [ 93] e. ^ Korean War: Note: [ 20] gives Dead as 33,746 and Wounded as 103, 284 and MIA as 8,177.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Casualties of World War II. A casualty in military usage is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, capture and desertion . The main article for this category is World War II casualties.
Kiev, 23 June 1941. A victim of starvation in besieged Leningrad suffering from muscle atrophy in 1941. World War II losses of the Soviet Union were about 27,000,000 both civilian and military from all war-related causes, [ 1] although exact figures are disputed. A figure of 20 million was considered official during the Soviet era.
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The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers ( Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany ). It began with a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land ...