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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.
An academic study published in the United States estimates Chinese military casualties as 1.5 million killed in battle, 750,000 missing in action, 1.5 million deaths due to disease and 3 million wounded; civilian casualties: due to military activity, 1,073,496 killed and 237,319 wounded; 335,934 killed and 426,249 wounded in Japanese air attacks.
On the side of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, Xue's Ninth Military Front in this campaign lost two effective corps loyal to Chiang Kai-Shek: the 4th and the 10th corps. This rendered "Tiger Xue" a toothless tiger until the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Ninth Military Front reported its losses as 32,009 killed and 52,895 ...
The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] The most complete tally of deaths during the battle is at the Cornerstone of Peace monument at the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum , which identifies the names of each individual who died at Okinawa in World War II.
Han dynasty people killed in battle (32 P) J. Jin dynasty (266–420) people killed in action (11 P) K. Chinese military ... Pages in category "Chinese war casualties"
American Civil War: 392 Battle of Riachuelo: 1865 Paraguayan War: 997 Battle of the Yalu River: 1894 First Sino-Japanese War: 1,730 Battle of the Yellow Sea: 1904 Russo-Japanese War: 566 Battle of Tsushima: 1905 Russo-Japanese War: 5,162 Battle of Lemnos: 1913 First Balkan War: 146 Battle of Coronel: 1914 World War I: 1,660 Battle of the ...
The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor , forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong around the same time that Japan ...
The Battle of Hengyang (Chinese: 衡陽保衛戰) 23 June – 8 August 1944 was fought between Chinese and Japanese forces in mainland China during World War II.Although the city fell, Japanese casualties far exceeded the total number of Chinese troops defending the city.