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World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
As of June 2018 total of US World War II casualties listed as MIA is 72,823 [94] e. ^ Korean War : Note: [ 20 ] gives Dead as 33,746 and Wounded as 103, 284 and MIA as 8,177. The American Battle Monuments Commission database for the Korean War reports that "The Department of Defense reports that 54,246 American service men and women lost their ...
Camp Grant was a U.S. Army facility located in the southern outskirts of Rockford, Illinois named in honor of American Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant.Camp Grant covered an area of 5,600 acres during World War I and 3,200 acres during World War II, and was in operation from 1917 to 1946.
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
The most populous of these is Cook County, the second-most populous county in the United States and the home of Chicago, while the least populous is Hardin County. The largest by land area is McLean County, while the smallest is Putnam County. Illinois's FIPS state code is 17 and its postal abbreviation is IL.
Camp Ellis was a United States World War II Army Service Forces Unit Training Center [1] and prisoner-of-war camp between the towns of Bernadotte, Ipava, and Table Grove in Fulton County, Illinois. [2] Construction began on 17 September 1942, [2] and the camp opened on 16 April 1943, [1] with an official dedication 14 July 1943. [2]
United States military personnel killed in action in World War II (1939–1945), including the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
The number of Bulgarian partisan deaths against the "fascists" was 10,000. [26] 10,124 Bulgarian [26] and 21,035 Romanian deaths [27] were documented with the Allies. 1,036 Finns died in the Lapland War [28] and 8,000 Czech partisans were killed in the Prague Uprising. [24] The Allied casualties at the Eastern Front total at 8,900,000 deaths.