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 American War Statistics 1775-2005
1/28/2007
| WAR |
YEARS |
SERVICE
MEMBERS |
BATTLEFIELD
DEATHS |
OTHER
DEATHS |
WOUNDED |
LIVING
VETERANS |
| American Revolution |
1775-83 |
217,000 |
4,435 |
Not Known |
6,188 |
0 |
| War of 1812 |
1812-15 |
286,730 |
2,260 |
Not known |
4,505 |
0 |
| Indian Wars |
1817-98 |
106,000 |
1,000 |
Not known |
Not known |
0 |
| Mexican War |
1846-48 |
78,718 |
1,733 |
11,550 |
4,152 |
0 |
Civil War
(Union Forces) |
1861-65 |
2,213,363 |
140,414 |
224 ,097 |
281,881 |
0 |
Civil War
(Confederates) |
1,050,000 |
74,524 |
59,297 |
Not known |
0 |
Spanish-
American War |
1898-1902 |
306,760 |
2,061 |
204.002 |
1,662 |
0 |
| World War I |
1917-18 |
4,734,991 |
53,402 |
63,114 |
204,002 |
-500 |
| World War II |
1941-45 |
16,112,566 |
291,557 |
113,842 |
671,846 |
4.7 million |
| Korean War |
1950-53 |
5,720,000 |
33,686 |
17,730 |
103,284 |
3.7 million |
| Vietnam War |
1964-75 |
9,200,000 |
47,410 |
10,788 |
153,303 |
8.3 million |
| Gulf War |
1990-91 |
2,322,332 |
147 |
1,149 |
467 |
1.8 million |
| Iraq |
2003-06 |
250,000 |
>3090** |
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47,000+ |
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Source: Department of Defense, Veterans Administration & Coalition Casualities
- The living veteran totals include duplications because 1,065,000 veterans served in more than one war.
- The "Other Deaths" is the number of service members who died while on duty, outside of combat
- 3.1 million of the Vietnam service members were deployed to Southeast Asia
- 1,136,658 of the Gulf War service members were deployed to the Gulf area
- Native American numbers in the Indian Wars are not known
** Includes reported U.S. military deaths in Iraq through Feb. 1, 2007
+ Iraq wounded includes all U.S. non-mortal casualties and dieseases sustained in that war..
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