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Facts and Figures of Wars


 

Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
April 19, 1775-Oct. 18, 1781
Served: 290,00 / (217,000)
Battle Deaths: 4,435
Other Deaths: Unknown
Wounded 6,188

Last Veteran: Daniel F. Bakeman, died 4/5/1869, age 109

 
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Indian Wars

Served: 106,000
Battld Deaths: 1,000
Other Deaths: Unknown
Wounded: Unknown

Last Veteran: Fredrak Fraske, died 6/18/73, age 101

 
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War of 1812

(1812-1815)
June 18, 1812 - February 17, 1815
Served: 286,730
Battle Deaths: 2,260
Other Deaths: Unknown
Wounded: 4,505

Last Veteran: Hiram Cronk, died 5/13/05, age 105

 
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Mexican War

(1846-1848)
Served: 78,718
Battle Deaths: 1,733
Other Deaths: 11,550
Wounded: 4,152

LastVeteran: Owen Thomas Edgar, died 9/3/29, age 98

 
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Civil War

(1861-1865)
Served: 2,213,363
Battle Deaths: 140,414
Other Deaths: 224,097
Wounded: 281,881

these figures vary the best I have found

is listed on a seperate page

Last Union Veteran: Albert Woolson, died 8/2/56, age 109

Last confederate Veteran

Last Confederate Veteran, John Salling   died 3/16/58, age 112

 
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Spanish-American War (1895-1902)
Served: 306,760 / (392,000)
Battle Deaths: 385
Other Deaths: 2,061
Deaths: 11,000)
Wounded: 1,662

Last Veteran: Nathan E. Cook, died 9/10/92, age 106

 
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PHILIPPINE CAMPAIGN

(1899-1913)

Served:
Battle Deaths: 1,108
Other Deaths: 2,108
Wounded: 2,779

   
 

World War I

(1911-1917)
Served: 4,744,00 / (4,734,991)
Battle Deaths: 53,513 / 53,402)
Other Deaths: 63,195 / (63,114)
Wounded: 204,002

Missing in Action: 4,500 / (4,452)

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World War II

(1941-1946)
Served: 16,112,566 / (16, 535,00)
Battle Deaths: 292,131 / (292,557)
Other Deaths: 115,185 / (113,842)
Wounded: 670,846 / (671,846)

Missing in Action: 4,780

(during: 78, 976)

 
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Korean War

(1950-1953)
Served: 5,720,000 / (6,807,000)

In-Theater: 1,789,000

Battle Deaths: 33,651 / (33,686)
In-theater Deaths: 2,830
Non-theather Deaths: 17,730
Other Deaths: 3,262
(Deaths: 55,000)
Wounded: 103,284

Captured: 3,746
Missing in Action: 8,142

 
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Bay of Pigs (1961)

Served:

Deaths: 146

Wounded: 47

 
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Vietnam War (1964-1973)
Served: 8,744,000 / (9,200,00)

In-Theater:3,403,000
Battle Deaths: 47,378

47,410
Other Deaths: 10,799

(IN THEATER 10,788)

Non theather Deaths: 32,000
(Deaths: 109,000)
Wounded: 153,303

Missing in Action: 2,500

(2,504)

 
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Gernada

(1983)

Served: 19

Deaths: 100

Wounded:

 
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OperationJust Cause
Panama (1989-1990)

Served:

Deaths: 40

Wounded: 240

 
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Gulf War

(1991)
Served: 2,183,000

(24,100 /2,322,332 )

In Theater: 665,476

BattleDeaths: 148

(363)
In Theater Other Deaths: 145

(382)
Non Theater Deaths: 914
(Deaths: 162/1,565)
Wounded: 467

(357)

 
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Operation Irqa Freedom 2003
3rd Persian Gulf War

Mar. 19, 2003 - ?

Served:
Battle Deaths; 292
Other Deaths: 127
Battle Wounded: 1,194
Other Wounded: 342

 
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Prisioners Of War

World War I: 4,120
World War II: 130,201
Korean: 7,140
Vietnam: 725
Persian Gulf: 21
Somalia: 1
Kosovo: 3