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American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics Congressional Research Service Louisiana State University's statistical summary of major American wars Washington Post database of all U.S. service-member casualties Archived 2006-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
Bernstein, Alison R. American Indians and World War II: Toward a New Era in Indian Affairs (1991) Brooks, Jennifer E. Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2004) Bruscino Jr, Thomas A. "Minorities in the Military." in by James C. Bradford, ed.
The actual combat deaths tallied is under a thousand [108] but the casualties inflicted in war include from more than deaths in battle; they include the missing, the captured, succumbing to illnesses in war-related places like malaria in the jungle, proximity to explosives handled by truckers and stevedores, aerial bombing, terrible burns from ...
In the Vietnam War, African American troops initially had a much higher casualty rate than other ethnicities, [8] though this declined somewhat throughout the course of the conflict. In 1965, nearly a quarter of troop casualties were African American. By 1967, it had fallen to 12.7%. [3]
The USCT suffered 2,751 combat casualties during the war, and 68,178 losses from all causes. Disease caused the most fatalities for all troops, both black and white. [ 10 ] In the last year-and-a-half and from all reported casualties, approximately 20% of all African Americans enrolled in the military died. [ 11 ]
African Americans, including former enslaved individuals, served in the American Civil War. The 186,097 black men who joined the Union Army included 7,122 officers and 178,975 enlisted soldiers. [1] Approximately 20,000 black sailors served in the Union Navy and formed a large percentage of many ships' crews. [2]
This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of U.S. soldiers killed was higher than 1,000. The battles and campaigns that reached that number of deaths in the field are so far limited to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, and one campaign during the Vietnam War (the Tet Offensive from January 30 to September 23, 1968).
For example, during the Seven Days Battles in the American Civil War (June 25 to July 1, 1862) there were 5,228 killed, 23,824 wounded and 7,007 missing or taken prisoner for a total of 36,059 casualties. [1] [note 1] The word casualty has been used in a military context since at least 1513. [2]