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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]
Japanese civilians killed in World War II (24 P) D. Deaths by American airstrikes during the Bombing of Tokyo (7 P) H. Hibakusha (1 C, 72 P) M.
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]
The Japanese losses totaled well over 20,000 men killed, with only 1,083 prisoners taken. [195] 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. [196]
Strategic bombing during World War II in Europe began on 1 September 1939 when Germany invaded ... as many as 500,000 Japanese deaths and some 5 million more made ...
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
In the air force over a half of losses were non-combat losses." [4] British Empire. United Kingdom: Europe 22,010 (including 10,045 fighters and 11,965 bombers) [3] Australia, Pacific and South East Asia: 250 [5] United States: Total losses were nearly 95,000, including 52,951 operational losses (38,418 in Europe and 14,533 in the Pacific). [3]
Four million people died in the Dutch East Indies as a result of famine and forced labour during the Japanese occupation, including 30,000 European civilian internee deaths. [3] In 1944–1945, Allied troops largely bypassed the Dutch East Indies and did not fight their way into the most populous parts such as Java and Sumatra. As such, most of ...