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In early 1942, the governments of smaller Allied powers began to push for an inter-governmental Asia-Pacific war council. The Pacific War Council was formed in Washington DC on 1 April 1942, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his key advisor Harry Hopkins, and representatives from Britain, China, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and ...
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; CNN list of U.S. Casualties in Iraq since 2003.
The number of casualties is simply the number of members of a unit who are not available for duty. 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.
The numbers correspond to recorded deaths during the Battle of Okinawa from the time of the American landings in the Kerama Islands on 26 March 1945 to the signing of the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945, in addition to all Okinawan casualties in the Pacific War in the 15 years from the Manchurian Incident, along with those who died in ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
The attacks resulted in significant casualties and devastation. Estimates indicate that at least 300 residents lost their lives, 40 were wounded, and 150 bodies were left unrecognizable due to the severity of the bombing. [6] Facing an innumerable amount of civilian casualties on the island, this led Dutch officials to flee to Pekanbaru and ...
The two men who had the greatest impact on Pacific war strategy were Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and Admiral Ernest King. Both were effectively in charge of their nation's naval operations when the war broke out between them. Both were "air-minded" and had commanded iconic aircraft carriers, Yamamoto the IJN Akagi and King the USS Lexington. Both ...
After the end of the war in August 1945, the POWs of the lost battalion were repatriated from their various locations to the United States. Of 534 personnel of the 2nd Battalion taken prisoner, 86 (16%) died in captivity. Of 368 Navy and Marine Corps personnel taken prisoner, 77 (21%) died in captivity.