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As of June 2018 total of US World War II casualties listed as MIA is 72,823 [94] e. ^ Korean War : Note: [ 20 ] gives Dead as 33,746 and Wounded as 103, 284 and MIA as 8,177. The American Battle Monuments Commission database for the Korean War reports that "The Department of Defense reports that 54,246 American service men and women lost their ...
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 action. [342] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [343]
The number of casualties is simply the number of members of a unit who are not available for duty. For example, during the Seven Days Battles in the American Civil War (June 25 to July 1, 1862) there were 5,228 killed, 23,824 wounded and 7,007 missing or taken prisoner for a total of 36,059 casualties.
Kula Gulf, Solomons 5 July 1943: Sunk by torpedo from Japanese destroyer Niizuki: Sturtevant: DD-240 Clemson class: Off Key West, Florida: 26 April 1942: Sunk in American-laid minefield. Thatcher: DD-514 Fletcher class: Off Okinawa 19 July 1945: Severely damaged by Kamikaze and not repaired. Truxtun: DD-229 Clemson class: Placentia Bay ...
Swanson Stadium is a baseball park located on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida, next to Alico Arena, the school's basketball facility. Opened in 2004, the stadium was renamed in 2005 for Duane and Cookie Swanson, local civic leaders and FGCU supporters.
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The American Theater [1] was a theater of operations during World War II including all continental American territory, and extending 200 miles (320 km) into the ocean.. Owing to North and South America's geographical separation from the central theaters of conflict (in Europe, the Mediterranean and Middle East, and the Pacific) the threat of an invasion of the continental U.S. or other areas ...
Only 42 US submarines were sunk in the Pacific, [67] but 3,500 (22%) submariners were killed, the highest casualty rate of any American force in World War II. [68] The force destroyed over half of all Japanese merchant ships, [69] totaling well over five million tons of shipping. [69] Atomic bomb mushroom cloud rising from Hiroshima, 6 August 1945.