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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]
Austrian military personnel killed in World War II (1 C, 65 P) Pages in category "Austrian casualties of World War II" This category contains only the following page.
Italian soldiers taken prisoner by the Allies during Operation Compass (1941). Most prisoners, after being captured, spent the war in the prisoner of war camps.In the early phases of the war, following German occupation of much of Europe, Germany also found itself unprepared for the number of POWs it held.
Military historian John Shy subsequently estimated the total killed in action at 8,000, and argued that the number of wounded was probably far higher, about 25,000. [91] The "other" deaths are primarily from disease, including prisoners who died on British prison ships.
Austrian Waffen-SS personnel killed in action (5 P) Pages in category "Austrian military personnel killed in World War II" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total.
World War II: 12,000 killed [144] Battle of the Bulge: 1944 –1945 World War II: 161,370 [41] [145] –218,900 Vistula–Oder Offensive: 1945: World War II: 636,191 including prisoners Battle of Luzon: 1945: World War II: 332,330 –345,330, including sick [146] Battle of the Rhineland: 1945: World War II: 82,000 and 250,000 prisoners [147 ...
Austrian Waffen-SS personnel (1 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Austrian military personnel of World War II" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total.
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 ...