Casualties of War

Thought it would be interesting to look at the casualties of war in some of the msot famous wars the USA fought in. I will not include American Revolution or War of 1812 cause it is too hard to tell.

Civil War : 1,100,000 casualties. The Union Army lost over 640,000 men (death/disease/missing) The Confederacy lost over 480,000 men.

Bloodiest Battle : Gettysburg, over 50,000 casualties.

World War 1 :

Russia : Men Mobilized - 12 million. Total Casualties = 9.15 million

France: Men Mobilized - 8.4 million. Total Casualties = 6.1 million

GB + Empire : Men mobilized - 8.9 million. Total Casualties = 3.1 million

USA : Men Mobilized - 4.3 Million. Total Casualties = 350,000

Total Allies Men Mobilized = 42 Million. Total Allies Casualties = 22 million

Germany : Men Mobilized - 11 Million. Total Casualties = 7.1 Million.

Austria : Men Mobilized - 7.8 Million. Total Casualties = 7 Million

Total Central Powers Men Mobilized - 22.8 Million. Total Casualties = 15 Million

Grand Total. Men Mobilized - 65 Million. Total Casualties = 37 Million.

WORLD WAR 2 (listing only total deaths civilians included.)

Russia = 20,600,000 Deaths. (7 million civilians)

China = 10 Million

Germany = 7 million

Poland = 6.3 Million (6 million civilians)

Japan = 2 million

Yugoslavia = 1.7 Million

France = 800,000

USA = 500,000

Great Britian = 400,000

Total = 52 Million deaths.

Korean War

We had over 1.7 Million men on the Korean theater and over 5 million in the army.

USA Casualties = 170,000. Over 50,000 deaths.

South Korea - Total Casualties - 980,000. Over 200,000 deaths.

UK - Total Casualties = 5,000

China = Total Casualties = 430,000

North Korea = Total Casualties unknown. 1.5 million is the believed number. Unknown how many civilians.

Vietnam

USA Total Deaths - 58,000. Youngest man to die was 16 year old Paul Raber. Oldest was 62 year old Kenna C. Taylor. Over 11,000 KIA;s were under 20.

N. Vietnam Casualties= figure has been put at 1.4 Million casualties.


Pretty nuts to see some of those numbers




http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/statistics.htm



http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/FWWcasualties.htm

the russians probably are responsible for half the death toll of their own soldiers. Stalin was ruthless.

THe japenese slaughtered millions of chinese in what could possibly go down as the worst travesty youve never heard of. THey didnt systematically kill like the germans did the jews, but they manically raped, gutted and mutilated millions in a rampage that would make charles manson cry in discust.

THe south vietnemese may be the saddest story. THey united to fight the North under the pretence that americans would provide military and firearms. When US pulled out they didnt leave any ammo and the south vietnemese were slaughtered in Saigon. Many stories of south vietnemese attacking near the end with shovels and rocks.

bird your alot deeper than the lions den qudos for the off topic

well thank ya cubes