The human cost of the war fell heaviest on the USSR, for which the official total, military and civilian, is given as more than 20 million killed. The Allied military and civilian losses were 44 million; those of the Axis, 11 million. The military deaths on both sides in Europe numbered 19 million and in the war against Japan, 6 million. The U.S., which had no significant civilian losses, sustained 292,131 battle deaths and 115,187 deaths from other causes. The highest numbers of deaths, military and civilian, were as follows: USSR more than 13 million military and 7 million civilian; China more than 3 million military and more than 10 million civilian; Germany 3.5 million and 3.8 million; Poland 120,000 and 5.3 million; Japan 1.7 million and 380,000; Yugoslavia 300,000 and 1.3 million; Romania 200,000 and 465,000; France 250,000 and 360,000; British Empire and Commonwealth 452,000 and 60,000; Italy 330,000 and 80,000; Hungary 120,000 and 280,000; and Czechoslovakia 10,000 and 330,000. http://www.armscenter.com/mby/wwii.html
http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/frame4.htm {11}Military figures include those of Army Ground and Air Forces, and those of the Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard. There were an additional 115,187 deaths of U.S. servicemen from non-battle causes. Civilians listed in 1946 as dead or missing include 5,638 of the merchant marine service.
Table 3--ARMED FORCES PEAK STRENGTHS AND BATTLE DEATHS OF THE AXIS POWERS Italy 3,750,000 77,494(2) (1) A limited number of these casualties occurred after the country joined the Allies.(2) Of these, 17,494 were killed after Italy became a cobelligerent with the Allies. http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_16.html
Second World War 1939-45 691,000 men and 35,800 women enlisted in the Australian Military forces (AIF and Militia), 45,000 men and 3,100 women enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy, 189,000 men and 27,000 women enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force 35,000 deaths from all causes (all services) 66,553 (all services) 7,289 in the war against Germany (of whom 234 died while captive), 22,376 in the war against Japan (of whom 8,031 died while captive)
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq11-1.htm Place of action KIA Wounded, Died, Invalided died later POW from service ---------------------------------------------------------------------- North African landings Navy 472 17 0 80 Marine 3 1 0 1 Sicilian landings Navy 521 24 0 33 Marine 1 0 0 1 Italian landings Navy 788 31 1 74 Marine 0 0 0 0 Landings in Southern France Navy 36 8 0 20 Marine 0 0 0 0 Invasion of France Navy 1068 32 2 263 Marine 0 0 0 0 Atlantic or Caribbean area unspecified Navy 2443 14 0 79 Marine 1 0 0 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Military losses Losses on the Eastern front Losses per age group Losses per branch Losses per branch & theater Losses per branch & year Losses per region (present borders) Losses per theater Losses per theater & year Losses per year http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/statistics.htm
B Human Losses The human cost of the war fell heaviest on the USSR, for which the official total, military and civilian, is given as more than 20 million killed. The Allied military and civilian losses were 44 million; those of the Axis, 11 million. The military deaths on both sides in Europe numbered 19 million and in the war against Japan, 6 million. The U.S., which had no significant civilian losses, sustained 292,131 battle deaths and 115,187 deaths from other causes. http://www.rickyswebpageonanything.freehomepage.com/truth_of_world_war_ii.htm
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/statistics.htm WW2ドイツ軍データベース Military losses Losses on the Eastern front Losses per age group Losses per branch Losses per branch & theater Losses per branch & year Losses per region (present borders) Losses per theater Losses per theater & year Losses per year
American casualties were also high. Ground combat losses for the Sixth and Eighth Armies were almost 47,000, some 10,380 killed and 36,550 wounded. Non-battle casualties were even heavier. From 9 January through 30 June 1945, the Sixth Army on Luzon suffered over 93,400 non-combat casualties, including 260 deaths, most of them from disease. Only a few campaigns had a higher casualty rate. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-C-Luzon/
The final casualty account should be understood in the context of the overall campaign. There were slightly more than 55,000 Allied troops, mostly Americans, at Aitape. Among these troops perhaps twelve infantry battalion equivalent size units bore the brunt of the fighting.* Incomplete statistics are naturally suspect, so the following calculations must be regarded as only very rough approximations.
{4}Estimated Deaths comprises 60,595 killed in aerial bombardment, 30,248 in the merchant marine service, 624 in women's auxiliary services, and 1,206 in the Home Guard. http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/frame5.htm
The officials concluded the inaccurate war-related death figure was due to confusion with the category "other deaths." Officials confirmed that the figure for "other deaths" included both non-battle deaths in Korea and other deaths in the armed forces that occurred outside Korea during the years of war. As a result, officials have adjusted the casualty figures, excluding the 17,730 who died elsewhere. The total number of deaths in theater now stands at 36,616 - of whom 33,686 were battle deaths and 2,830 were non-battle deaths." http://www.aiipowmia.com/updates/updt0600.html
Cause of Death First World War Second World War Battle related deaths 53,993 19,235 Non-Battle deaths 7,727 20,194 Wounded in action 137,013 23,477 Gassed 16,496 0 Prisoners of War 3,647 28,756 Prisoner of War deaths 109 8,031 http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/statistics/world_wars.htm
Battle dead 33,665 Non-battle death 3,275 Total Deaths in Theater 36,940 Died Elsewhere 17,320 Wounded(#of personel) 92,134 Wounded(#of incidences) 103,284 MIA(Bodies not recovered/identified) 8,176 MIAs returned to US Military Control 715 POWs returned to Military Control 4,418 POWs Who Refused Repatoriation 21
Although Navy and Marine Corps battle casualties were only 159,495 to 162,668 (depending on how one constructs the numbers), Captain Louis H. Roddis, U.S. Navy, M.D., noted in "Naval and Marine Corps Casualties in the Wars of the United States" (Military Surgeon 99 [October 1946]: 305-10) that these figures were more than eight times the number of killed and wounded among our naval personnel in all the other wars of the United States combined. An additional 12,000+ Merchant Marine and Coast Guard battle casualties, primarily from German submarines, were not included in Roddis's study, but do not alter his basic point. The 12,000 figure includes dead and missing but not combat injuries (burns, wounds, etc.), and there were an additional 30,442 Navy and Marine non-battle deaths. Non-battle deaths are frequently included in battle casualty tabulations because, unlike other categories of non-battle casualties, dead personnel are irrevocably removed from the manpower pool, while a percentage of those in other categories returned to full duty status or were able to serve in a reduced capacity within the United States and thus free healthy personnel for overseas duty. http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/invade.htm
The German surrender on 8 May 1945, and the Japanese surrender on 15 August 1945, together marked the end of World War II. Of the estimated 16 million Americans who served during the war, 406,000 had died and almost 79,000 were missing. The war with Germany resulted in roughly 24,000 unaccounted-for, and with Japan over 54,000. Of these, almost 16,000 individuals were lost in Europe (this number includes those lost in the Battle of the Atlantic). An additional 4,000 were lost in the western waters of the Atlantic. Also lost in the war with Germany were almost 4,000 servicemen serving south and west of the Mediterranean in North Africa and the Persian Gulf. In the east, over 54,000 were lost in the Pacific and in Asia. This includes American casualties lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Over 400 additional servicemen were lost in U.S. mainland Pacific coastal waters[2]. http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/special/2000_wwii_report.htm
TOTAL DEATHS IN THEATER: 36,516 DIED ELSEWHERE (Worldwide during Korean War) 17,730 WOUNDED (Number of personnel) 92,134 WOUNDED (Number of incidences*) 103,284 (*Includes individual personnel wounded multiple times) UNACCOUNTED FOR (Bodies not identified/bodies not recovered) 8,176 http://www.aiipowmia.com/koreacw/kwkia_menu.html
Military Action Hostile Dealths Wounded Non-Hostile Deaths World War II Total 293,121 670,846 115,185 European Theater 185,179 498,948 66,805 Pacific Theater 107,903 171,898 48,380
Military Action Hostile Dealths Wounded Non-Hostile Deaths
World War I (1917-18) 53,513 204,002 63,195 World War II 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.kyowva.com/bbacks/nationalmisfortune.htm
http://www.angel45-2b.com/statistics.html Army and Air Corps Total ETO/Mediat(a) Pacific Other Philippine Is. Captured and Interned 124,079 93,941 27,465 2,673 (25,580) Died WhilePOW 12,653 1,121 11,107 425 10,650 Returned to U.S. Military Control 111,426 92,820 16,358 2,248 (14,930) Alive on January 1,1982 84,753 71,736 11,280 1,737 (10,295) Alive on January 1,1999 47,631 40,547 6,112 972 5,562
* Civilian casualties are not included. Estimated total Chinese casualties during the period is 35,000,000. Source: Dept. of Defense, Republic of China. Official Report. http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/NanjingMassacre/NMchron.html
Wounded totalled 295,247, while another 240,000 soldiers' fate was "obscure." (Data based upon Tables 608-609, op. cit., p. 1058; as of December 21, 1946-Army only; collations by First Demobilization Bureau.) The yearbook was prepared by the Statistics Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office and the Executive Office of the Statistics Commission (Tokyo, May 1949). http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/utm/kogun.txt
American casualties were also high. Ground combat losses for the Sixth and Eighth Armies were almost 47,000, some 10,380 killed and 36,550 wounded. Non-battle casualties were even heavier. From 9 January through 30 June 1945, the Sixth Army on Luzon suffered over 93,400 non-combat casualties, including 260 deaths, most of them from disease. Only a few campaigns had a higher casualty rate. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-C-Luzon/
Military Action Hostile Dealths Wounded Non-Hostile Deaths
World War I (1917-18) 53,513 204,002 63,195 World War II 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.kyowva.com/bbacks/nationalmisfortune.htm
All Theaters 41,575 European Theater of Operations 17,082 Mediterranean Theater of Operations 10,612 Pacific Ocean Areas 1,394 Far East Air Forces 7,229 China & India-Burma 3,289 Alaska 492 Twentieth Air Force 651 Other Overseas 826
Military Action Hostile Dealths Wounded Non-Hostile Deaths World War I (1917-18) 53,513 204,002 63,195 World War II 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.kyowva.com/bbacks/nationalmisfortune.htm
PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE USA On February 8, 1945, the US Army announces that there are 359,258 POW's interned in the USA. These include 305,873 Germans, 50,561 Italians and 2,820 Japanese. In all, 666 POW camps were set up in the USA during the war. http://www.aquarius.aust.com/~gduncan/1944.html
Losses per theater Theater Dead % Africa 16.066 0,3 Balkans 103.693 1,9 North 30.165 0,6 West 339.957 6,4 Italy 150.660 2,8 Eastern Front (- Dec 1944) 2.742.909 51,6 Germany (1945) 1.230.045 23,1 Various 245.561 4,6 Total 4.859.056 http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=3612
peak forces total forces total dead KIA NCD civilian dead WIA PW-MIA Britain 7,500 24,000 307a Burma 250a n/a 126a 3,052a India 8,235a 100,000 28,873a 8,786a Africa 858a 858a 3,208a 200a China n/a 40,000 United States 3,349 2,177 1,417 subtotal Japan 393,500 187,500 4,500
1939 Population includes present day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The war dead listed here are those reported by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Total deaths were 87,040 which included Army (79,326), Air Force(897), Navy(501), Merchant Navy (6,114), unidentified by branch of service(9), and civilian deaths(193). These losses include war related deaths war during 1946-47 (8,522)[22]The preliminary 1945 data for Indian losses was, killed 24,338, missing 11,762, wounded 64,354 and POW 79,481.[20] Civilian losses were caused by the Bengal famine of 1943.[4][9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
Of the 30,000 troops on the Japanese side, 8,440 were killed and 8,766 wounded. The Red Army committed 57,000 infantry, 498 tanks, and 346 armoured cars to the battle, and claimed total losses (killed and wounded) of 9,284 men. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, new documents about the battle changed the numbers considerably. The actual number of losses in the battle was 23,926, of whom 6,831 killed, 1,143 reported missing and 15,952 wounded. While the Red Army did win the battle, it was not as one-sided a battle as previously believed.
A total of 7,310 British prisoners of war died while in German captivity and 12,443 died while in Japanese captivity. Of an estimated 350,000 prisoners captured by the Japanese in WW11, 35,756 died, a death rate of 10.2%. Of the 235,473 prisoners interned by Germany and Italy, 9,348 died, a death rate of 4%.
GENERAL MARSHALL said he was not familiar with the Polish issue and its political aspects. He said from the military point of view the situation in Europe was secure but that they hoped for Soviet participation in the war against Japan at a time when it would be useful to us. The Russians had it within their, power to delay their entry into the Far Eastern war until we had done all the dirty work. He said the difficulties with the Russians such as in the case of CROSSWORD usually straightened out. He was inclined to agree with Mr. Stimson that possibility of a break with Russia was very serious.
Military Action Hostile Dealths 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 U.S. Military engagements from 1775 to 1975 numbered sixty-five. War dead and wounded in the ten major conflicts during this period are: