There were 16,112,566 members of the United States Armed Forces during World War II. There were 291,557 battle deaths, 113,842 other deaths in service (non-theater), and 670,846 non-mortal woundings. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, around 558,000 American veterans from the war were estimated to still be alive in September 2017.
Video Surviving U.S. veterans of World War II
Medal of Honor recipients
During this conflict 464 United States military personnel received the Medal of Honor, 266 of them posthumously. Additionally, the only Medal of Honor recipient in the history of the United States Coast Guard, Douglas Albert Munro, received the Medal for his actions during this war. There are currently four living World War II Medal of Honor recipients.
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Mortality
In 2016, the Department of Veterans Affairs estimated that 362 American World War II veterans died every day.
Survivors associations
There are numerous US World War II survivors associations, including American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (disbanded in 2011), Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, United States Submarine Veterans of World War II (many State Chapters now closed), Navajo Nation Code Talker Association, and the Philippine Scouts Heritage Society.
Notable veterans
See also
Other US wars
- Last surviving United States war veterans
- List of last surviving World War I veterans by country
- List of surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War
Specific groups
- Texas Military Veteran video Oral Histories - Newton Gresham Library, Sam Houston State University
Other lists
- List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars
References
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