Military Action Hostile Deaths Wounded Non-Hostile Deaths World War I (1917-18) 53,513 204,002 63,195 World War II (1941-1945) Total 293,121 670,846 115,185 European Theater 185,179 498,948 66,805 Pacific Theater 107,903 171,898 48,380 Korean War (1950-53) 33,629 103,284 20,617 Vietnam War (1961-75) 47,358 153,303 10,817 http://www.giveshare.org/news/news016.html
During the course of the war, the Twentieth Air Force flew 31,387 bomber sorties; 3,058 of which were flown by the XX Bomber Command, 28,329 by the XXI. The war had taken 414 B-29s, 80 from the XX Bomber Command and 334 from the XXI. Losses on combat missions averaged 1.3 percent of sorties airborne, with a total of 147 bombers lost. Of these combat losses: 50 percent were caused by enemy fighters. 36 percent were caused by enemy antiaircraft. 13 percent were caused by a combination of both. 1 percent were self-inflicted by accident. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/Hansell/Hansell-6.html
Aggregate United States plane losses during the course of the Pacific war, not including training losses in the United States, were approximately 27,000 planes. Of these losses 8,700 were on combat missions; the remainder were training, ferrying and other noncombat losses. Of the combat losses over 60 percent were to antiaircraft fire.
In the attack by Allied air power, almost 2,700,000 tons of bombs were dropped, more than 1,440,000 bomber sorties and 2,680,000 fighter sorties were flown. The number of combat planes reached a peak of some 28,000 and at the maximum 1,300,000 men were in combat commands. The number of men lost in air action was 79,265 Americans and 79,281 British. [Note: All RAF statistics are preliminary or tentative.] More than 18,000 American and 22,000 British planes were lost or damaged beyond repair.