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Pages in category "American military personnel killed in World War I" The following 153 pages are in this category, out of 153 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
During World War I, 4,734,991 served in the American military. [2] There were a total of 116,516 deaths, with 53,402 of those occurring in battle. [2] Another 63,114 died of noncombat reasons, including about 45,000 due to the 1918 outbreak of Spanish flu; 30,000 soldiers died before they even reached France.
In July 2014, Serbian poet and academic Matija Bećković said "that 402,435 Serbian soldiers have been killed and 845,000 civilians hanged or exterminated in concentration camps during WWI. [143] At a September 2014 conference sponsored by the Serbian Ministry of Defense, Dr. Alexander Nedok put Serbian war dead at 1,247,435 persons. [144]
The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial (French pronunciation: [waz ɛːn]) is an American military cemetery in northern France.Plots A through D contain the graves of 6,013 American soldiers who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I, 597 of which were not identified, as well as a monument for 241 Americans who were missing in action during battles in the same area and ...
c. ^ Civil War: All Union casualty figures, and Confederate killed in action, from The Oxford Companion to American Military History except where noted (NPS figures). [20] estimate of total Confederate dead from James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1988), 854. Newer estimates place the total death toll at 650,000 ...
The majority of the soldiers memorialized at the Flanders Field American Cemetery represent four main divisions who fought in Belgium during the final weeks of the war. The 27th New York and the 30th Old Hickory Divisions saw action near Ypres from August 18 to September 4, 1918.
The cemetery holds 14,246 graves of American soldiers who died in World War I. It includes 486 unknown soldiers. Wall panels on the Memorial Chapel record the names of 954 soldiers whose bodies were never found. The inscription above their names states- "whose earthly resting place is known only to God".
America in the Great War: The Rise of the War-Welfare State (1991) Trask, David F. The United States in the Supreme War Council: American War Aims and Inter-Allied Strategy, 1917–1918 (1961) Trask, David F. The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917–1918 (1993)online free