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ORIGINAL: itsjustme

No where close.

US dead were @ 300,000. Not sure what the total casualties were.

The figures for Japan and Germany vary wildly and depend on whether you include the civilian population in the casualties (particularly, late in the war it is difficult to know, e.g. the Red Army's venture into Prussia was a massacre). Suffice it to say it was in the millions.

Then there are the Russian's which bore far and away the greatest number of casualties.

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ORIGINAL: timtom

Two separate official casualty figures exist for the US Army, as both the Adjutant General and the Medical Department were responsible for tallying casualties. However, they both land in the 825,000 area casualty-wise. This figure includes the USAAF, which of course was administratively part of the Army.

Using the Medical Department's figures, the precise number is 829,556 casualties, including 229,832 battle deaths. This latter figure, however, also includes 14,298 deaths among POW's. Some additional 76,000 died from disease or accidents.

About 80% of Army casualties were sustained in Europe. Of the four main theatres, the ETO alone accounted for 516,508. The MTO tally came to 143,379, the SWPA 82,791, and the POA 46,116. Thus, Army battle casualties in the Mediterrenian exeeded those of the entire Pacific.

The USMC suffered 87,788 casualties, almost exclusively in the Pacific, and including approximately 19,000 dead. I don't have any figures for the Navy, only I know the death toll was about 40,000.

Almost 70,000 WWII US servicemen remain listed as MIA, most of whom, presumably, are dead. As far as I can tell, the MIA don't figure in any of the above numbers.