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Category: Japanese casualties of World War II. ... Japanese civilians killed in World War II (24 P) D. Deaths by American airstrikes during the Bombing of Tokyo (7 P) H.
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]
Japanese Army and Navy personnel killed by enemy action during the Second World War, (1937-1945) Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Japanese casualties of World War II (4 C) H. Hibakusha (1 C, 72 P) Hirohito (3 C, 24 P, 1 F) J. Japanese military personnel of World War II (6 C, 18 P) M.
USS PT-133 Sunk by Japanese shore batteries, July 15 1944. USS PT-164 Sunk by Japanese aircraft, August 1 1943. USS PT-247 Sunk by Japanese shore batteries, May 5 1944. USS PT-251 Sunk by Japanese shore batteries, February 26 1944. USS PT-300 Sunk by a Kamikaze, December 18 1944. USS PT-320 Sunk by Japanese aircraft, November 5 1944.
By the time World War II was in full swing, Japan had the most interest in using biological warfare. Japan's Air Force dropped massive amounts of ceramic bombs filled with bubonic plague-infested fleas in Ningbo, China. These attacks would eventually lead to thousands of deaths years after the war would end. [25]
This was the greatest loss of life in a single warship in World War II. 2,498 Navy 1944 Japan: Yoshino Maru – The Japanese troopship, sailing to Borneo in Convoy MI-11, was torpedoed and sunk 280 nautical miles (520 km) north-north west of Cape Mayraira, Luzon by USS Parche: 2,495 Military 1944 Japan
The Japanese losses totaled well over 20,000 men killed, with only 1,083 prisoners taken. [184] It was the only major island battle in the Pacific war where American casualties outnumbered Japanese losses. Historians continue to debate whether Iwo Jima was strategically worth the casualties sustained in capturing it. [185]