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Old 03-25-2024, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by getmygoat View Post
Of something like ~350,000 Americans killed in WWII, ~55,000 of them were in the 8th/9th air force.
425,000 combat related deaths for U.S. forces in WW2. It total goes up every time another MIA is confirmed as a KIA. At one point, the USAAF had the highest probability of being KIA of any U.S. force in WW2.

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