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During World War II, 14,059 American POWs died in enemy captivity throughout the war (12,935 held by Japan and 1,124 held by Germany). [342] 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 ...
0.2 million [202] 499 BCE–449 BCE Greek city-states vs. Achaemenid Empire: Southeast Europe, West Asia, and Northeast Africa Guatemalan Civil War: 0.14–0.2 million [203] [204] 1960–1996 Government of Guatemala vs. Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity Central America North Yemen Civil War: 0.1–0.2 million [205] [206] 1962–1970
The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France.
World War II: 1,000,000 [113] Battle of Hong Kong: 1941: World War II: 18,000 including prisoners [114] Battle of Malaya/Battle of Singapore: 1941 –1942 World War II: 143,800, and 60,000 prisoners [115] Battle of Bataan/Battle of Corregidor: 1942: World War II: 30,000 killed [116] Battle of Lyuban: 1942: World War II: 365,135: Battle of the ...
Supported during the First World War by the Central Powers: French victory First World War (1914–1918) Location: Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and coast of North and South America. Allied Powers. France British Empire United Kingdom Canada Newfoundland Australia New Zealand India South Africa; Russian Empire United ...
Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses. Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-280-7. Overmans, Rüdiger (2000). Deutsche militärische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Oldenbourg. ISBN 3-486-56531-1. Panecki, T. Wsiłek zbrojny Polski w II wojnie światowej pl:Wojskowy Przegląd Historyczny, 1995, no. 1-2. Piotrowski, Tadeusz (1998). Poland's Holocaust. McFarland.
The German historian Rüdiger Overmans in 2000 published the study Deutsche militärische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg (German Military Casualties in the Second World War), which has provided a reassessment of German military war dead based on a statistical survey of German military personnel records. The financial support for the study came ...
France had lots of armed forces in World War II, in part due to the German occupation. In 1940, General Maurice Gamelin commanded the French Army, headquartered in Vincennes on the outskirts of Paris. It consisted of 117 divisions, with 94 committed to the northeastern front and a commander, General Alphonse Georges, at La Ferte-sous-Jouarre.