Died: Unless otherwise specified, refers to military personnel that died in accidents or of diseases or other accidents while serving in WWII.

Casualty: Refers to anyone that is taken out by the enemy and includes wounded and prisoners.

Note: Numbers of deaths are estimates

THE STATISTICS

54,770,000 — total deaths in WWII
38,573,000 — civilians died in WWII
292,131 — Americans died in WWII
3,393 — Americans died on D-Day
6,603 — casualties (including deaths, wounded and prisoners) on D-Day
7,000 — Americans died on Iwo Jima
12,000 — Americans died on Okinawa
51,983 — Americans died in the Pacific
1,140,429 — members of the Japanese military died during WWII
700,000 to 10,000,000 (variously estimated) — Japanese civilians died in WWII

PEARL HARBOR

2,403 — people killed
1,104 — people wounded

How many planes and ships were destroyed or damaged?

188 — planes
8 — battleships
3 — light cruisers
3 — destroyers
4 — smaller vessels

HOME FRONT

37,000 — conscientious objectors performing alternative service
20,000,000 — Victory Gardens planted
6,500,000 — women worked in defense industries

MILITARY

How many Americans served in each branch of the military in 1944?

7,994,750 — Army
2,981,365 — Navy
475,604 — Marines
11,535,000 (61.2 percent of those who served) — Americans were drafted
6,332,000 (38 percent) — Americans volunteered for service
12,364,000 — peak strength of U.S. armed forces during WWII
10,000,000 — peak strength of German armed forces (including Austria) during WWII
5,000,000 — peak strength of French armed forces during WWII
12,500,000 — peak strength of Soviet armed forces during WWII
4,683,000 — peak strength of British armed forces during WWII
6,095,000 — peak strength of Japanese armed forces during WWII

WOMEN IN THE WAR

350,000 — served in the U.S. military
4,000 — black women served in the Army blacks in WWII

BLACKS IN WWII

1,200,000 — blacks served in the military in WWII
7 total — black Medal of Honor recipients. Six received their awards posthumously.

The soldiers received the medal several decades after the war because of racial disparities identified in a study of the selection methods for the medal, called the Shaw Study.

Evacuees of Japanese ancestry await their turn for baggage inspection upon arrival at a temporary detention camp in Turlock, Calif., in 1942. Dorothea Lange

JAPANESE-AMERICANS

110,000 — people of Japanese ancestry were interned in the U.S.
26 — internment camps (10 permanent, 16 temporary)
33,000 — Japanese-Americans served in the U.S. military

HISPANIC-AMERICANS

250,000 to 500,000 — Hispanic-Americans served in the U.S. military during WWII

These estimates are rough because at the time, the military categorized Hispanics as whites. The only racial groups to have separate statistics kept were blacks and Asians.

COST OF WAR

$288,000,000,000 — cost to U.S.
$212,336,000,000 — cost to Germany
$111,272,000,000 — cost to France
$93,012,000,000 — cost to Soviet Union
$49,786,000,000 — cost to Britain
$41,272,000,000 — cost to Japan
$1,600,000,000,000 — direct economic costs of WWII

MONTHLY AVERAGE BASE PAY

$71.33 — for service men
$203.50 — for officers

AWARDS

464 — Medals of Honor awarded during WWII
800,000 to 1,000,000 — Purple Heart Medals earned during WWII

THE HOLOCAUST

5,993,900 — Jews killed by Germany
16 million to 20 million — others killed by Germany (the elderly, people with mental disabilities, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Poles, Communists, etc.)