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The lists contain the names of Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard personnel on active duty whose deaths resulted directly from enemy action or from operational activities against the enemy in war zones from December 7, 1941, to the end of World War II.
A wounded soldier is removed from the tank that served as an impromptu ambulance to evacuate casualties from the battlefield on Okinawa. The fighting on the island was intense, and medical personnel were often vulnerable to enemy fire as they tried to carry wounded to safety and treatment.
Search WWII Electronic Records in the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) Finding Aids. Records Holdings Relating to World War II at the National Archives at Riverside, originals and microfilm ; Records Relating to Personal Participation in World War II: The "American Soldier" Surveys, A finding aid ; Holocaust Era Assets ; Office of Strategic ...
Overview. Note: "Total casualties" includes wounded, combat and non-combat deaths but not missing in action. "Deaths – other" includes all non-combat deaths including those from bombing, massacres, disease, suicide, and murder. Wars ranked by U.S. battle deaths.
Over 16.5 million men and women served in the armed forces during World War II, of whom 291,557 died in battle, 113,842 died from other causes, and 670,846 were wounded.
United States in World War II, 1941 to 1945. Casualty generally refers to any soldier lost to active military service due to death, injury, desertion, having been captured, or soldiers that are missing.
Information (e.g., Army serial numbers) on service members buried or memorialized at our World War II overseas military cemeteries. Names of the Missing memorialized at our East Coast Memorial, West Coast Memorial, and Honolulu Memorial.
Normandy Invasion A German soldier lying dead outside a pillbox above Utah Beach, Les Dunes de Madeleine, France, June 6, 1944. casualties of World War II. Written by. Kenny Chmielewski. Kenny is an associate cartographer at Britannica and has worked there since 2008.
See estimates for worldwide deaths, broken down by country, in World War II.
World War II was the largest and most violent military conflict in human history. Official casualty sources estimate battle deaths at nearly 15 million military personnel and civilian deaths at over 38 million.