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Fallen British and Australian soldiers in a mass grave, dug by German soldiers, 1916 or 1917 ^ b Australia. The Australian War Memorial puts their war dead at 61,513. [19] The Australian War Memorial maintains a database listing the names of war dead. [113] The Commonwealth War Graves Commission figure for Australian war dead is 62,149. [11]
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.
Campaign of 1914 (Entente victory; Russia captures Galicia, part East Prussia and part of the Carpathian Mountains, And also knocks out the Germans from Poland, disrupting their plans to destroy a group of Russian troops. As well as disrupts the Schlieffen plan, forcing Germany to fight on two fronts) [8] [9] [10] East Prussian campaign (German ...
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 .
This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of U.S. soldiers killed was higher than 1,000. The battles and campaigns that reached that number of deaths in the field are so far limited to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, one campaign during the Vietnam War (the Tet Offensive from January 30 to September 23, 1968) and one campaign during the Iraq ...
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 very weakness of American military power encouraged the German Empire to start its unrestricted submarine attacks in 1917. It knew this meant war with America, but it could discount the immediate risk because the U.S. Army was negligible and the new warships would not be at sea until 1919 by which time the war would be over, Berlin thought ...
The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding similar combat-related or civilian deaths) and civilian casualties during the battles.