are there wwii veterans alive today?
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About 300,000 U.S. World War II veterans are alive in 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which has published projections of the number of living veterans from 2015 to 2045. WWII service members' numbers have dwindled from around 939,000 in 2015.
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A veteran is a former member of the Armed Forces of the United States (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard) who served on active duty and was discharged under conditions, which were other than dishonorable.
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They are dying quickly—according to US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, we are losing 348 veterans per day and only 496,777 of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II were alive in 2018.
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According to Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC), 33,200 Second World War veterans are still alive in Canada, including 7,500 in British Columbia. More than one million Canadians and Newfoundlanders served in the military during the campaign — more than 45,000 gave their lives and another 55,000 were wounded.
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Korean War veterans make up nearly 16 percent of the 24.4 million total veterans. An estimated 848,000 Korean War veterans also served in other war periods: 171,000 in both WWII and Vietnam, 404,000 only in WWII, and 273,000 only in Vietnam.
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Wright has served a role in virtually every major conflict of his lifetime -- Vietnam, Gulf Wars I and II and Kosovo -- and tours in the Pacific theater, Indian Ocean, Kenya and Korea. In fact, he may be the sole remaining active duty Vietnam veteran, according to military officials.
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More than 2,400 U.S. service members and civilians died that day. Nearly half of them were aboard the USS Arizona, a battleship that sank under heavy strafing and bombing. There were just 335 survivors of the USS Arizona's crew. Just three are alive today.
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About 300,000 US World War II veterans are alive 75 years after V-E Day | Pew Research Center.
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On 75th anniversary of V-E Day, about 300,000 American WWII veterans are alive.
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According to Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC), 33,200 Second World War veterans are still alive in Canada, including 7,500 in British Columbia.
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30, 2020, 245 WWII veterans are expected to be lost each day.
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Approximately 110,000 Americans – from the Marine Corps and Navy – served in the fight. Jarosz said no definitive count exists of how many are still alive. Twenty-seven Americans received the Medal of Honor for their heroics on Iwo Jima, more than for any battle in the country's history.
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However, apart from military retirees, many other guards, reserve and active duty members are also veterans. Even those who served the military forces under their contracted time and were discharged either by general conditions or honorable conditions still fall into the veterans' category.
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They are dying quickly—according to US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, 389,292 of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II are alive in 2019.
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The Tuskegee Airmen Inc. said it's impossible to know exactly how many members from the program that ran March 22, 1941 to Nov. 5, 1949 are still alive, but there were but as of May 2019, there were 12 of 355 single-engine pilots who served in the Mediterranean theater operation during World War II still alive.
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NOTICE DATED 28 FEBRUARY 2019: As of this date The American War Library estimates that approximately 610,000 Americans who served on land in Vietnam or in the air over Vietnam between 1954 and 1975 are alive today. And approximately 164,000 Americans who served at sea in Vietnam waters are alive today.
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WWII vets fading from Canada's Remembrance Day services — but memories still vivid for some. Bennett was among the more than 1 million Canadians who served in World War II. As of March 31, just 61,300 of those veterans were still alive, with an average age of 92 years.