Posted On: 05/24/2016 7:29:45 PM
Post# of 65629
Killed in Action is different from the total number of names on the wall, roughly 18,000 fewer. that's how I come by my lower averages.
Weekly reports were specific as to KIA and the heaviest combat occurred from '65 through '70, with '67, '68, '69 providing a horrendous bell shaped curve.
Accidents....teenagers with heavy machinery and weapons, shit happens, always has....died of wounds and illness account for most of the differential.
http://www.archives.gov/research/military/vie...stics.html
Weekly reports were specific as to KIA and the heaviest combat occurred from '65 through '70, with '67, '68, '69 providing a horrendous bell shaped curve.
Accidents....teenagers with heavy machinery and weapons, shit happens, always has....died of wounds and illness account for most of the differential.
http://www.archives.gov/research/military/vie...stics.html
Quote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_m...ies_of_war
Wars ranked by American combat deaths
Rank War Years Deaths
1 World War II 1941–45 291,557
2 American Civil War 1861–65 212,938
3 World War I 1917–18 53,402
4 Vietnam War 1955–75 47,424
5 Korean War 1950–53 33,746
6 American Revolutionary War 1775–83 8,000
7 Iraq War/Afghanistan Wars 2001–present 5,281 [90]
8 War of 1812 1812–15 2,260
9 Mexican–American War 1846–48 1,733
10 Northwest Indian War 1785–95 1,221+
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