how many american world war II veterns are still alive?
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Unfortunately that number is decreasing everyday. You could try contacting the American legion they might have a number. The only numbers I could find were in 2004 there were 4 million alive but they are dying at a rate of 1100 a day. But there was another undated article that said 65,000.
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Don't know, but I have read that the total number people alive today is far greater than the total number of people who have ever lived and died.\n\nThe short answer is; everyone who has survived birth.
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usa involved? 1900-2000 there were 138 wars. we were in 67 of them. korea, viet nam, iraq 1 & iraq 2 are the more advertised.
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Oh my Fing God. You bastard; you just personaly attacked a veteran with a simple question and called her bloodthirsty. less than 50,000 at most have died, check it, no where close to a million. most have died because terrorists keep blowing them selves  up in mosques and crowded market places. The point was; if you don't realy know ANYTHING about it you shoulden't whine about it
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If you google list american POWs WWII, you'll get many sites.  They seem to be split up between Japan and Europe, so you'll have to do the math.
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The records for over nine million Army soldiers from WWII are in the National Archives\n\nDespite aging documents, information about a majority of the sixteen million World War II servicemen and women is available on their web site.\n\nBecause of the age of the microfilm, approximately 1.5 million records could not be digitally scanned.\n\nBecause the records available are for Army enlistments during World War II, the file does not include records for Army officers, members of other services or enlistments for other time periods but does include records for 130,000 women enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.
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Agree with Scott, and the others that say WWII.\n\nAnd something to consider...Of the 16 million who served, only about 4 million are still alive and veterans from that war are dying at a rate of 1,056 a day.   So hug a Vet or say "thanks" today, they might not be here tomorrow.  \n\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/28/national/main620124.shtml\n\nAlso realize this is the generation where women left the home and entered the workplace in non-traditional female roles to run the factories and plants to keep America (and other countries) rolling.   This opened the door to the many choices women have today.  So hug a "Rosie the Riveter" today.   She too, might not be here tomorrow.   Little known fact:  The woman from the "Rosie the Riveter" painting by Norman Rockwell was Mary Doyle Keefe,  almost 80 years now and a grandmother of eleven kids. \n\nhttp://www.rosietheriveter.org/painting.htm
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In 2003 there were 873 active duty Generals and Admirals in the U.S. Armed Forces. That number still has to be in the ball park.  Nothing like Rumsfeld's "thousands and thousands."
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25 million world-wide.\n\n8 million were in German concentration camps, of which about 6.5 million were Jews.
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you can find a list at The American War Library\n\nhttp://members.aol.com/veterans/warlib46.htm
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That was over 90 years ago and then men who served must be well over 100 years of age. But since it was so long ago, I'm sure the Army's in Europe weren't very organized at the time. And there is little knowledge of who served. But there is less than 50 still living within the US. So I would say maybe around 100 (and that's pushing it!)\nProud Great Grand-Daughter of Cpl. Capo-WWI
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About 55,000, whose names are on the VietNam memorial wall in Washington, D.C., where many American VietNam veterans and family go to mourn their friends, fathers, etc. Many many more made it home, but have had serious physical, mental, and financial problems, partly due to Americans non-support for the war (which fortunately changed over the years, at least for the vets), as well as the unescapable fact that War is Hell on earth, regardless, and that was one of the worst.
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Need more info. Are you asking on a daily basis? Are you asking for all of the people that ever lived? I read a while back that it's been estimated that there have been approximately 60 billion people who have ever lived. Sorry if that's not what you were looking for.
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all i know is that 6 million people died in the Holocaust\n\nand 40 million died in war world 2
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Well my father was in world war two, under general patton, went on d-day to the end, and then you have these people that don't appreciate their service to the their country. I'm just glad he didn't die over there for some of these jerk heads today. It makes me sick to think of  all the sacrifices our forefathers made(dying in the prime of life) for this country,and the liberals will take over and ruin this country without firing a shot. America is a terrible thing to waste, help stamp out liberals in our life time.\nAll our enemies don't have to worry about causing us to suffer, this country is slowly dying every day, can you imigine this world without America, it's spooky, isn't it.
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February 9, 1943 - During World War II in the Pacific, U.S. troops captured Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands after six months of battle, with 9,000 Japanese and 2,000 Americans killed.
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When the military establishments wants to install loyalty, spirit d’ corp and romance they come up with something like “leave no soldier behind”.  Take a look at WW II How many of you knew that more than 25,000 of our WWII American POW/MIAs were "liberated" near the end of WWII by Soviet Red Army troops as they advanced through Eastern Europe and the eastern part of Germany? How many of you knew that ONLY 4165 of those American servicemen "liberated" by the Soviet Red Army in WWII ever came home? (That’s less than 1/5 of those men!)  How many of you knew that General Eisenhower had lists of these brave American fighting men who had been "liberated" by the Soviet Red Army at the end of WWII, and that he and top levels of the U.S. government "WROTE OFF" these men who had bravely served their country, leaving them to ROT in Soviet gulags?\nHow many of you knew that in the Korean War we had 7190 POWs, and that ONLY 4428 were ever repatriated? How many of you knew that there were OVER 8000 men MIA from the Korean War?\nHow many of you knew that there were OVER 2400 POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War, and that these men are now listed as "PFOD" (Presumptive Finding of Death)?\nHow many of you knew that a U.S. Army colonel serving at the Defense Intelligence Agency (Colonel Millard A. Peck, Infantry) requested to be "retired immediately" from active military service because of the Pentagon’s cover-ups of any evidence that surfaced showing our POW/MIAs were still alive? (Colonel Peck had been the Chief of the Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing In Action.) ((NOTE: The Pentagon’s cover-up of the POW/MIA issue CONTINUES to this very day!))\nHow many of you were aware that CBS’s "60 Minutes" assigned Monika Jensen-Stevenson to do a segment on the POW/MIA issue; however, when she discovered irrefutable evidence that American fighting men were STILL being held in Laos, Vietnam, and the "former" Soviet Union, CBS REFUSED to air that segment! (Jensen-Stevenson quit her job at CBS and pursued the POW/MIA story on her own, later writing a book entitled Kiss the Boys Goodbye.)\nquote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it." \nGod Bless You and The Southern People.