Random Facts about World War 2

Germany lost 136 Generals during World War 2. This corresponds to a dead General every two weeks. The average service time was each member of the U.S. armed forces overseas in 16 months? The average active service period of a U.S. soldier during World War 2 lasted 33 months?

114 000 U.S. soldiers in combat, beyond the battlefields of World War 2 got killed? A total of 292 000 soldiers, sailors, pilots and Marines in battles of World War 2 were murdered?

German Soldier fighting in World War 2

The number of members of U.S. military personnel in World War 2 from 1 December 1941 to 31 Served in December 1946 was 16.1 million.

671 000 U.S. soldiers were wounded during the Second World War? In 2000, according to the census there were 5.7 million veterans of World War 2 in the U.S. alive. In 2002 there were approximately 475 000 veterans in California and that these are more than any other U.S. state. In the year 2002 440 000 veterans of World War 2 received compensation for disabilities they incurred while in the service? In April 2000, the number of veterans of World War 2 corresponded to 22% of all war veterans. The average age of veterans of World War 2, according to the last census was 76.7 years? The estimated number of female veterans of WW2 in 2002 was 210 000, the equivalent to 4.4% of the total number of veterans.

In 2000 the proportion of still employed in the military veterans of World War 2 was 11.6%?

Second World War Veterans

80% of the men who were born in 1923 in the Soviet Union did not survive ww2. Over 100 000 Allied bomber crew members were murdered in Europe. Of 6 June 1944 to 8th May 1945 200 000 men got killed on the Allied side. 40 000 men served during World War 2 U-boats. 30 000 never came back. An average German officer had to be replaced 9.2 times. The U.S. Army had more ships than the U.S. Navy. The only nation that Germany declared the war officially, the United States.
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