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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.
1941-12-07 (12-08 Asian Time) Attack on Pearl Harbor; 1941-12-08 Japanese invasion of Thailand; 1941-12-08 Battle of Guam (1941) 1941-12-07 Japan declares war on the United States and the United Kingdom; 1941-12-08 The United States and the United Kingdom declare war on Japan; 1941-12-08 – 1941-12-25 Battle of Hong Kong
This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of U.S. soldiers killed was higher than 1,000. The battles and campaigns that reached that number of deaths in the field are so far limited to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, and one campaign during the Vietnam War (the Tet Offensive from January 30 to September 23, 1968).
The following is a tabulation of United States military casualties of war. ... War Years Deaths 1: World War II: 1941–1945: 291,557 2: American Civil War: 1861–1865:
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
Pacific Coast campaign (Mexican–American War) (1846–1848) United States Navy operations during the Mexican–American War; Pacific campaign (Spanish–American War), between the United States and Spain during the Spanish–American War of 1898; Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I (1914–1918), between the Allies and the German Empire
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 ...
1846–1848: Mexican–American War: On May 13, 1846, the United States recognized the existence of a state of war with Mexico. After the annexation of Texas in 1845, the United States and Mexico failed to resolve a boundary dispute and President Polk said that it was necessary to deploy forces in Mexico to meet a threatened invasion.