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  1. Commonly cited casualty figures provided by the Department of Defense are 4,435 killed and 6,188 wounded, although the original government report that generated these numbers warned that the totals were incomplete and far too low. [88] .

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  3. In terms of the number of deaths per day, the American Civil War is still at the top, with an average of 425 deaths per day, while the First and Second World Wars have averages of roughly...

  4. May 25, 2017 · In short, modern American warfare has become less a national sacrifice than it once was, with a significantly smaller percentage of the nation's population bearing the burden. The chart below shows U.S. war deaths per official military conflict.

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  5. May 15, 2020 · Historians and the VA agree that 1,733 U.S. troops were killed in the war, a whopping 2.2% death rate. The Battle of Cerro Gordo. This number would be staggering if you had no idea that diseases...

  6. 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, and one campaign during the Vietnam War (the Tet Offensive from January 30 to September 23, 1968).

    Battle Or Siege
    Conflict
    Date
    Estimated Number Killed
    Battle of Elsenborn Ridge (part of the ...
    December 16 to 26, 1944
    ~5,000 killed
    September 12 to 15, 1918
    ~4,500 killed
    July 1 to July 3, 1863
    3,155 killed [A 3]
    October 23 to 25, 1944
    2,800 killed
  7. May 27, 2019 · That’s almost half of all Americans who have ever died during wartime, and more than a hundred times more than died during the American Revolution, according to the latest estimates from the...

  8. Death figures are based on incomplete returns. Does not include 26,000 to 31,000 who died in Union prisons. Estimate based upon new population projection methodology. Source: Department of Defense (DOD), except living veterans, which are VA estimates as of Sept. 2019.

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