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US military dead |
Battle casualties |
Dates |
Total |
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(k=killed; w=wounded) |
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deaths |
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Civil War (N+S) |
212,938 k; 354,805 w |
1861-1865 |
625,000 |
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WW I |
53,402 k; 204,002 w |
1917-1919 |
116,516 |
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WW II |
291,557 k; 670,846 w |
1940-1945 |
405,399 |
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Korean War |
33,746 k; 103,284 w |
1950-1953 |
36,516 |
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Vietnam War |
47,424 k; 153,303 w |
1964-1975 |
58,151 |
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Gulf War |
147 k; 467 w |
1991 |
299 |
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Iraq War |
4,000 k; 44,000 w |
2003-2008 |
4,500 |
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WW II European |
Casualties |
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Battles |
(c=captured; m=missing) |
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Normandy Invasion |
(k=killed; w=wounded) |
6-Jun-44 |
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Germany |
30,000 k; 80,000 w |
6-Jun-44 |
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US |
29,000 k; 106,000 w,m |
6-Jun-44 |
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UK |
11,000 k; 54,000 w,m |
6-Jun-44 |
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Canada |
5,000 k; 13,000 w,m |
6-Jun-44 |
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France |
12,200 k,w,m |
6-Jun-44 |
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Berlin |
540,000+ k |
1945 |
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Budapest |
158,000 - 350,000 k |
1944-1945 |
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Warsaw |
250,000+ k |
1944 |
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Kursk |
1,338,000 k,w |
1943 |
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Smolensk |
650,000 - 700,000 k,w,c |
1943 |
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Stalingrad |
1,530,000 k,w |
1942-1943 |
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Leningrad |
1,500,000 k |
1941-1944 |
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Odessa |
34,307 k |
1941 |
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Suomussalmi |
27,850 k |
1939-1940 |
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Tannenburg Line |
220,000 k |
1944 |
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Normandy |
80,200 k |
1944 |
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Monte Cassino |
74,000 k,w |
1944 |
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Bulge |
35,120 k |
1944 |
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Dnieper |
2,000,000 - 2,750,000 k,w,c |
1943 |
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3rd Kharkov |
50,000 k |
1943 |
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2nd El Alamein |
30,000 - 35,000 k |
1942 |
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Moscow |
900,000 - 1,700,000 k |
1941-1942 |
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Barbarossa |
2,700,000 k |
1941 |
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Kiev |
313,600 k,w |
1941 |
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Greece |
40,000+ k |
1941 |
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France |
185,000 K |
1940 |
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Poland |
83,639 k |
1939 |
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Source: |
Wikipedia battle histories |
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US Civil War |
North |
South |
Total |
Equivalent if |
Date |
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Battles |
Killed |
Killed |
Killed |
killed today |
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US pop = 31.443M |
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(times 9.6) |
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Gettysburg |
23,049 |
28,063 |
51,112 |
490,675 |
7/1/1863 - 7/3/1863 |
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The Seven Days |
15,849 |
20,614 |
36,463 |
350,045 |
6/20/1862 - 6/27/1862 |
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Chickamauga |
16,170 |
18,454 |
34,624 |
332,390 |
9/19/1863 - 9/20/1863 |
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Chancellorsville |
17,278 |
12,821 |
30,099 |
288,950 |
5/1/1863 - 5/4/1863 |
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Spotsylvania |
18,399 |
9,000 |
27,399 |
263,030 |
5/8/1864 - 5/19/1864 |
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The Wilderness |
17,666 |
7,750 |
25,416 |
243,994 |
5/5/1864 - 5/7/1864 |
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Antietam |
12,410 |
13,724 |
26,134 |
250,886 |
9/17/1862 |
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Chantilly |
16,054 |
9,197 |
25,251 |
242,410 |
8/29/1862 - 8/30/1862 |
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Shiloh |
13,047 |
10,694 |
23,741 |
227,914 |
4/6/1862 - 4/7/1862 |
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Stones River |
12,906 |
11,739 |
24,645 |
236,592 |
12/31/1862 |
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Fredricksburg |
12,653 |
5,309 |
17,962 |
172,435 |
12/11/1862 - 12/13/1862 |
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Fort Donelson |
2,832 |
16,623 |
19,455 |
186,768 |
2/13/1862 - 2/16/1862 |
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Source: Official US government printing office - 1880
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