History of United States military casualties of war

United States military casualties of war

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This article lists the United States of America's military dead, wounded, and missing person totals for wars and major deployments.

Contents

• 1 Overview
• 2 Wars ranked by total number of U.S. military deaths
• 3 Wars ranked by U.S. combat deaths
• 4 Notes
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Overview

War or Conflict	Date	Total U.S. Deaths			Wounded	Total U.S. Dead & Wounded	Missing	Sources & Notes
		Combat	Other	Total
American Revolutionary War	1775–1783	8,000		25,000	25,000	50,000
Northwest Indian War	1785–1796	1,056+		1,056+	825+	1,881+		[1][2][3]
Quasi-War	1798–1800	20	494[4]	514	42	556		[4][5]
First Barbary War	1801–1805	35	39	74	64	138		[6][7][8][9]
Other actions against pirates	1800–1900	36	158+[10]	194+	100+	294+		[5][11][12][b]
Chesapeake–Leopard Affair	1807	3	0	3	18	21		[5]
War of 1812	1812–1815	2,260	12,740~	15,000~	4,505	20,000~		[13]
Marquesas Expedition	1813–1814	4		4	3	7		[7]
Second Barbary War	1815	4	134[14]		10	148		[15]
First Seminole War	1817–1818	47		47	36	83		[16]
First Sumatran Expedition	1832	2		2	11	13		[5]
Black Hawk War	1832	47	258[17][18]	305	85	390		[19]
Second Seminole War	1835–1842	328	1,207	1,535				[20]
Mexican–American War	1846–1848	1,733	11,550	13,283	4,152	17,435		[21]
Cayuse War	1847-1856	40	1	41	74	115		[22]
Rogue River Wars	1851-1856	190	6	196	293	489		[23]
Yakima War	1855-1856	32	2	34	92	126		[24]
Third Seminole War	1855–1858	26		26	27	53		[25]
Coeur d'Alene War	1858	36		36	60	96		[26]
Civil War: total	1861–1865	214,938	400K-500K	750,000~[27]				[c][28]
Union		110,000[29]- 140,414	224,097	364,511	281,881	646,392
Confederate		74,524-94,000[30]	225,000~	299,524~
Dakota War of 1862 (Little Crow's War)	1862	70–113		70–113	150	220–263		[31][32][33][34]
Shimonoseki Straits	1863	4–5[5][35]	0	4–5	6[5]	10		[5][35]
Snake Indian War	1864–1868	30		30	128	158		[24]
Indian Wars	1865–1898	919			1,025			[21]
Red Cloud's War	1866–1868	126		126	100	226		[36][37][38]
Korea (Shinmiyangyo)	1871	3		3	9	12		[39]
Modoc War	1872–1873	56		56	88	144		[40][41]
Great Sioux War	1875–1877	314		314	211	525		[42][43]
Nez Perce War	1877	134		134	157	291		[44][45]
Bannock War	1878	12	0	12	22	34		[46][47]
Ute War	1879	15	0	15	52	67		[46][48]
Sheepeater Indian War	1879	1		1	10	11		[46]
Samoan crisis	1887-1889	0	62	62		62		[49]
Ghost Dance War	1890–1891	35		35	64	99		[50][51]
Sugar Point Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians	1898	7	0	7	16	23	0	[52]
Spanish–American War	1898	385	2,061	2,446	1,622	4,068		[21]
Philippine–American War	1898–1913	1,020	3,176	4,196	2,930	7,126		[21]
Boxer Rebellion	1900–1901	68	63	131	204	335	0	[53]
Santo Domingo Affair	1904	1	0	1	2	3		[5]
United States occupation of Nicaragua	1910, 1912-1925, 1927-1933	90	69	159	290	449		[54][55]>[56]
Mexican Revolution	1914–1919	120	61	181	319	500		[57]
Occupation of Haiti	1915–1934	10	138	148	26+	184+		[5][58]
World War I	1917–1918	53,402	63,114	116,516	204,002	320,518	3,350	[21][d]
North Russia Campaign	1918–1920			424				[59]
American Expeditionary Force Siberia	1918–1920	160	168	328	52+	380+		[60]
China	1918; 1921; 1926–1927; 1930; 1937	5			78	83		[54]
World War II	1941–1945	291,557	113,842	405,399	670,846	1,076,245	30,314	[21]See Note DA below
Greek Civil War	1944-1949	1	5	6		6		[61]
Chinese Civil War	1945–1950	14	150	164	51	215		[61]
Berlin Blockade	1948–1949		31					[62]
Korean War	1950–1953	33,686	2,830	36,516	92,134	128,650	4,759	Note: 4,759 MIA-See Note E below
U.S.S.R. Cold War	1947–1991	32			12	44		[54]
China Cold War	1950–1972	16				16		[54]
Vietnam War	1955–1975	47,424	10,785	58,209	153,303	211,454	2,489[63]	[21][64]Note as of 20 February 2014 Vietnam MIA Are 1,643[65]
1958 Lebanon crisis	1958	1[66]	5[66][67]	6	1+[68]	7+		[69]
Bay of Pigs Invasion	1961	4		4		4		[70]
Dominican Republic	1965–1966	27	20	47	283	330		[54][61][71]
USS Liberty incident	1967	34			171
Iran	1980	0	8	8	4	12	0	[72]
El Salvador Civil War	1980–1992	22	15	37	35			[73][74][75][76]
Beirut deployment	1982–1984	256		266	169			[77]
Persian Gulf escorts	1987–1988	39	0	39	31
Invasion of Grenada	1983	18	1	19	119			[77]
1986 Bombing of Libya	1986	2	0	2	0	2		[78]
Invasion of Panama	1989	23		40	324			[77]
Gulf War	1990–1991	149	145	294	849	1,143	0[79]	[80]
Operation Provide Comfort	1991-1996	1	18	19	4	23		[81][82]
Somalia	1992–1993	29	14	43	153			[77]
Haiti	1994–1995	1		4	3			[77]
Colombia	1994–present	0	8[83][84]	8				[85]
Bosnia-Herzegovina	1995–2004	7	5	12	6			[86]
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia	1999	1	19	20	2+	22+	0	[87]
Afghanistan War	2001–present	1,742	471	2,229	18,675	20,904	0	[f][88][89]
Iraq War	2003–2011	3,527	961	4,488	32,222	36,710	2	[88]
War on Terror: Afghanistan and Iraq Wars total	2001–present	5,281	1,432	6,717	50,897	57,614	2	[90]
Operation Inherent Resolve	2014-		2			2	1	[91]
Grand Total	1775–present	848,163	433,162	1,321,612	1,531,036	2,717,993	38,160

Wars ranked by total number of U.S. military deaths

Rank	War	Years	Deaths	Deaths per Day	US Population in First Year of War	Deaths per Population
1	American Civil War	1861–1865	625,000	420	31,443,000	1.988% (1860)
2	World War II	1941–1945	405,399	297	133,402,000	0.307% (1940)
3	World War I	1917–1918	116,516	279	103,268,000	0.110% (1920)
4	Vietnam War	1961–1975	58,209	11	179,323,175 (1960)	0.030% (1970)
5	Korean War	1950–1953	36,516	45	151,325,000	0.020% (1950)
6	American Revolutionary War	1775–1783	25,000	11	2,500,000	0.899% (1780)
7	War of 1812	1812–1815	15,000	15	8,000,000	0.207% (1810)
8	Mexican–American War	1846–1848	13,283	29	21,406,000	0.057% (1850)
9	War on Terror	2001–present	6,717	1.57	294,043,000	0.002% (2010)
10	Philippine–American War	1899–1902	4,196	3.8	72,129,001	0.006% (1900)

"Deaths per day" is the total number of U.S. military killed, divided by the number of days between the dates of the commencement and end of hostilities. "Deaths per population" is the total number of U.S. military deaths, divided by the U.S. population of the year indicated.

Total American Deaths by War
American Civil War			625,000
World War II			405,399
World War I			116,516
Vietnam			58,151
Korean War			36,516
American Revolutionary War			25,000
War of 1812			15,000
Mexican American War			13,283
War on terror* present			6,717
Philippine–American War			4,196

Wars ranked by U.S. combat deaths

Rank	War	Years	Deaths
1	World War II	1941–1945	291,557
2	American Civil War	1861–1865	212,938
3	World War I	1917–1918	53,402
4	Vietnam War	1955–1975	47,424
5	Korean War	1950–1953	33,746
6	American Revolutionary War	1775–1783	8,000
7	War on Terror	2001–present	5,281 [92]
8	War of 1812	1812–1815	2,260
9	Mexican–American War	1846–1848	1,733
10	Northwest Indian War	1785–1795	1,221+

American Combat Deaths by War
World War II			291,557
American Civil War			212,938
World War I			53,402
Vietnam			47,424
Korean War			33,746
American Revolutionary War			8,000
War on terror*			5,281
War of 1812			2,260
Mexican American War			1,733
Northwest Indian War			1,221+

Notes

a. ^{^} Revolutionary War: All figures from the Revolutionary War are rounded estimates. 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.^[93] Nevertheless, the numbers are often repeated without this warning, such as on the United States Department of Veteran Affairs website.^[94] In 1974, historian Howard Peckham and a team of researchers came up with a total of 6,824 killed in action and 8,445 wounded. Because of incomplete records, Peckham estimated that this new total number of killed in action was still about 1,000 too low.^[95] Military historian John Shy subsequently estimated the total killed in action at 8,000, and argued that the number of wounded was probably far higher, about 25,000.^[96] The "other" deaths are primarily from disease, including prisoners who died on British prison ships.

b. ^{^} Other Actions Against Pirates: Includes actions fought in the West Indies, the Greek Isles, off of Louisiana, China and Vietnam. Other deaths resulted from disease and accidents.

c. ^{^} Civil War: All Union casualty figures, and Confederate killed in action, from The Oxford Companion to American Military History except where noted (NPS figures).^[21] estimate of total Confederate dead from James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1988), 854. Newer estimates place the total death toll at 650,000 to 850,000. See: Guy Gugliotta, "New Estimate Raises Civil War Death Toll", New York Times, April 2, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
CA. ^{^} Civil War April 2, 2012 Doctor David Hacker after extensive research offered new casualty rates higher by 20%; his work has been accepted by the academic community and is represented here.

d. ^{^} World War I figures include expeditions in North Russia and Siberia. See also World War I casualties

da.^{^} World War II Note: as of March 31, 1946 there were an estimated 286,959 dead of whom 246,492 were identified; of 40,467 who were unidentified 18,641 were located {10,986 reposed in military cemeteries and 7,655 in isolated graves} and 21,826 were reported not located. As of April 6, 1946 there were 539 American Military Cemeteries which contained 241,500 dead.^[97] Note the American Battle Monuments Commission database for the World War II reports that that in 18 ABMC Cemeteries total of 93,238 buried and 78,979 missing and that "The World War II database on this web site contains the names of those buried at our cemeteries, or listed as Missing in Action, buried or lost at sea. It does not contain the names of the 233,174 Americans returned to the United States for burial..." Similarly, the ABMC Records do not cover inter-War deaths such as the Port Chicago disaster in which 320 died. As of November 2, 2011 Total of US World War II casualties {Military and Civilian} not recovered is 73,692; by February 15, 2014 the total of US World War II Casualties {Military and Civilian} not recovered is 73,637; total of US World War II Casualties buried at sea are 6,061.

e. ^{^} Korean War: Note:^[21] gives Dead as 33,746 and Wounded as 103, 284 and MIA as 8,177. The POW/MIA gives the figures listed here: for example: The total "Battle Dead" of 33,686 is broken down into 23,637 KIA; 2,484 DOW: 4,759 MIA; 2,806 {POWS}. 2,830 are given as non-battle deaths; wounded 103,284 is given as the Number of incidences of wounded-including individual personnel wounded multiple times ;likewise 17,730 are listed separately as having died elsewhere Worldwide during Korean War. The American Battle Monuments Commission database for the Korean War reports that "The Department of Defense reports that 54,246 American service men and women lost their lives during the Korean War. This includes all losses world wide. Since the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. honors all U.S. Military who lost their lives during the War, we have tried to obtain the names of those who died in other areas besides Korea during the period June 27, 1950 to July 27, 1954, one year after the Korean Armistice...". {For a breakdown of Worldwide casualties of 54,246 see The Korean War educator at ^[98] gives figures as In-theatre/non theater} After their retreat in 1950, dead Marines and soldiers were buried at a temporary gravesite near Hungnam, North Korea. During "Operation Glory" which occurred from July to November 1954 the dead of each side were exchanged; remains of 4,167 US soldiers/Marines were exchanged for 13,528 North Korean/Chinese dead.^[99] After "Operation Glory" 416 Korean War "unknowns" were buried in the Punchbowl Cemetery. According to a DPMO white paper ^[100] 1,394 names were also transmitted during "Operation Glory" from the Chinese and North Koreans {of whom 858 names proved to be correct}; of the 4,167 returned remains were found to be 4,219 individuals of whom 2,944 were found to be Americans of whom all but 416 were identified by name. Of 239 Korean War unaccounted for: 186 not associated with Punchbowl unknowns {176 were identified and of the remaining 10 cases 4 were non-Americans of Asiatic descent; one was British; 3 were identified and 2 cases unconfirmed}; Of 10 Korean War "Punchbowl Unknowns" 6 were identified. The W.A. Johnson listing of 496 POWs-including 25 Civilians ^[101]-who died in North Korea can be found here-^[102] and here^[103]