Tuesday, July 08, 2003

[x History News Network] How Many U.S. Troops Have Died In War?












































































































War



Deaths



Addendum


War for Independence

25,324

Bunker Hill cost 400 American lives

War of 1812

2,260



Mexican War

13,283



Civil War

Union

Confederacy

863,153

498,332

364,821

Antietam cost 5,000 lives (both sides);
bloodiest day in U. S. history

War with Spain

2,446



World War I

116,516

Battle of Somme cost 19,240 British lives on a single day (total British casualties at the Somme: 57,470)

World War II

405,399

Other Losses:

Soviet: 10,000,000

German: 3, 500,000

Japan: 1,500,000

British: 280,000 (at Dunkirk: 68,000 British casualties)

Korean Conflict

54,246



Vietnam Conflict

56,244



Panama Invasion

23



Gulf War I (1993)

148



Gulf War II (2003)

200+

(and counting)

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