Cost of Freedom. U.S numbers killed in Action

select-fire

This is from 2004. Afgan and Iraq totals are higher. Just read and think about all who gave..


U.S. wars and the number of Americans killed in action


The Orange County Register


American Revolution
1775-1783
American colonies seeking
independence from British rule.
Americans killed: 7,000


War of 1812
1812-1815
U.S. territorial expansion and British shipping rules.
Americans killed: 2,260


Mexican-American War
1846-1848
Territory disputes between the United States and Mexico over Texas.
Americans killed: 1,733


Civil War
1861-1865
Confederate states' desire for independence, Union states'
attempt to reunify country.
Americans killed: 204,000


Spanish-American War
1898
Spanish involvement in the Americas and the liberation of Cuba.
Americans killed: 2,500-5,000


Philippine-American War
1899-1913
Philippine resistance to American occupation.
Americans killed: 4,234


World War I
1914-1918
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, German aggression.
Americans killed: 53,402


World War II
1941-1945
Worldwide response to German, Italian and Japanese
aggression.
Americans killed: 291,557


Korean War
1950-1953
North Korean invasion of South Korea.
Americans killed: 33,741


Vietnam War
1961-1975
U.S. involvement after Viet Cong insurgency against the South Vietnamese government.
Americans killed: 58,226


Persian Gulf War
1991
American response to Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
Americans killed: 147


Afghanistan
2001-present
American response to 2001 terror attacks in New York and Washington.
Americans killed: 129


Iraq
2003-present
American-led coalition to
depose Saddam Hussein.
Americans killed: 868

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Sources: Department of Defense, Associated Press, Lunaville

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shoff14

according to CNN

2,466 Americans have died so far in Iraq and 292 in Afghanistan.

ATF

GOD BLESS them all,most likley CNN lies.

AlbertLum

i think the numbers on the civil war are wrong. i thought the number was between 550,000 and 600,000 dead

dlrjj

Wrong by about 400,000.

Of course, most of those were the result of some form of disease, not battle related deaths.

shoff14

quote:Originally posted by ATF
GOD BLESS them all,most likley CNN lies.


http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

count every name for yourself. [:(]

dcinffxva

I think these numbers are a little closer

http://hnn.us/articles/1381.html

American Revolution 25,324
Bunker Hill cost 400 American lives
War of 1812 2,260
Mexican War 13,283

Civil War
Union
498,332
Confederacy
364,821
Antietam cost 5,000 lives on both sides: bloodiest day in American history
Spanish-American War 2,446
World War I 116,516
Battle of Somme cost 19,240 British lives on a single day (total British casualties that day: 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 the British suffered 68,000 casualties

Korean War 54,246
Vietnam War 56,244
Panama Invasion 23
Gulf War (1991) 148

dlrjj

This is a C & P of the numbers I have seen for the Civil War.

At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation's loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.
The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:

Battle deaths: 110,070
Disease, etc.: 250,152
Total 360,222

The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:

Battle deaths: 94,000
Disease, etc.: 164,000
Total 258,000

KSUmarksman

quote:Originally posted by ATF
GOD BLESS them all,most likley CNN lies.


no, there's something fishy about the other figures.
I swear that Civil War casualties were in the 600, 000 range.
I also thought that WWII KIA were on the order of 400000, at least in the 300000 range, not 290000.

p3skyking

When you talk of hundreds of thousands of deaths, or losses for the bean counters, it somehow removes the humanity from the equation.

Most towns in America are not populated by even a hundred thousand people. Imagine a couple of those towns just disappearing off the map.

It's hard to stomach the number of Hemmingway's or Edison's or Ford's that failed to survive to make an impact on our lives.

Every one of those dead would have probably rather have been somewhere else. But they weren't. They were doing their duty as a man and as an American as they saw fit. They suffered and died away from their homes and families.

I can't really say the numbers interest me that much. Whatever the number, it was far too many.

It may be time to resurect the America First organisation and heed George Washington's words.

select-fire

I wasn't at any conflicts counting bodies... However anyone got the stats on how many alcohol related deaths in automobiles to date. I bet that number is high..

SG

There is roughly 17,000 deaths per year in America due to drunk driving.

Detroit homicides


2000: 395

2001: 396

2002: 402

2003: 366

2004: 384

So this goes to show that more Americans have been killed in Detroit than in Iraq since the start of the war. [:0]Iraq is safer than Detroit!

n/a

Kinda makes me sick that I personally knew 4% of those killed durring Desert Storm.