The True Cost of Freedom...
| Military Action |
Hostile Deaths |
Wounded |
Non-Hostile Deaths |
| Revolutionary War (1775-1783) |
6,824 |
8,445 |
18,500 |
| Indian Wars (1775-1893) |
|
|
|
| Soldiers |
4,546 |
2,156 |
N/A* |
| Indians |
4,000 |
N/A* |
N/A* |
| Franco-American Naval War (1797-1800) |
20 |
42 |
N/A* |
| Barbary Wars (1801-1805, 1815) |
35 |
64 |
N/A* |
| USS Chesapeake vs HMS Leopard |
3 |
18 |
0 |
| War of 1812 (1812-1815) |
2,260 |
4,505 |
N/A* |
| Marquesas Islands (1813-1814) |
5 |
3 |
N/A* |
| Slave Attack in Florida (1816) |
4 |
0 |
0 |
| Peru (1820) |
2 |
6 |
0 |
| West Indies Anti-Piracy Campaign (1822-1825) |
4 |
5 |
N/A* |
| Aegean Sea (1827) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Sumatra (1832) |
2 |
11 |
N/A* |
| Texas War of Independence (1835-1836) |
704 |
138 |
N/A* |
| Mexican-American War (1845-1848) |
1,733 |
4,152 |
11,550 |
| Paraguay (1855) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| China (1855-1859) |
14 |
31 |
N/A* |
| Fiji (1840, 1855, 1858) |
3 |
9 |
N/A* |
| Cortina War - Texas Border (1859-1860) |
5 |
18 |
N/A* |
| Vera Cruz, Mexico (1860) |
1 |
3 |
N/A* |
| United States Civil War (1861-1865) |
|
|
|
| Union |
110,000 |
281,881 |
249, 952 |
| Confederate |
94,000 |
195,000 |
164,000 |
| Japan (1863) |
5 |
6 |
N/A* |
| Formosa (1867) |
1 |
0 |
N/A* |
| Mexico (1870) |
2 |
8 |
N/A* |
| Korea (1871) |
3 |
10 |
1 |
| Chile (1891) |
2 |
18 |
0 |
| Spanish-American War (1898) |
362 |
1,637 |
2,621 |
| Phillipine War (1899-1902) |
1,053 |
2,840 |
3,220 |
| Samoa (1899) |
4 |
5 |
0 |
| China/Boxer Rebellion (1900) |
53 |
253 |
51 |
| Moro/Pulajan Campaigns (1902-1906, 1913) |
130 |
323 |
500 |
| Domican Republic (1904) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Mexican Punitive Expedition (1916) |
18 |
30 |
9 |
| Nicaragua (1912) |
5 |
16 |
N/A* |
| World War I (1917-1918) |
53,513 |
204,002 |
63,195 |
| North Russian Expedition (1916-1919) |
144 |
305 |
100 |
| Siberian Expedition (1918-1920) |
35 |
52 |
135 |
| Nicaragua (1927-1932) |
47 |
66 |
89 |
| Yangtze Service, China (1918-1941) |
5 |
71 |
N/A* |
| North Atlantic Naval War (1941) |
126 |
44 |
15 |
| World War II (1941-1945) |
293,121 |
670,846 |
115,185 |
| European Theater |
185,179 |
498,948 |
66,805 |
| Pacific Theater |
107,903 |
171,898 |
48,380 |
| Trieste/Italy (1944-1946) |
9 |
14 |
N/A* |
| Chinese Civil War (1945-1947) |
12 |
42 |
22 |
| Cold War (1944-1994) |
382 |
N/A* |
N/A* |
| Phillipines (1946, 1951) |
8 |
N/A* |
N/A* |
| Greek Civil War (1946-1949) |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| Korean War (1950-1953) |
33,739 |
103,284 |
2,835 |
| Quemoy and Matsu (1954) |
3 |
N/A* |
N/A* |
| Lebanon (1958) |
1 |
1 |
4 |
| Bay of Pigs, Cuba (1961) |
4 |
0 |
N/A* |
| Laos (1961-1962) |
11 |
3 |
3 |
| Vietnam War (1961-1973) |
47,434 |
153,303 |
10,786 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) |
1 |
0 |
8 |
| Panama Canal Riots (1964) |
3 |
85 |
N/A* |
| Dominican Republic (1965-1966) |
27 |
172 |
20 |
| Guatemala (1965-1968) |
4 |
2 |
0 |
| Korea (DMZ)(1966-1969) |
92 |
134 |
183 |
| USS Liberty off Israel(1967) |
34 |
171 |
0 |
| Terrorism (1970-1998) |
73 |
227 |
0 |
| Mayaguez-Cambodia/Koh Tang Is. (1975) |
18 |
50 |
23 |
| Iran (1980) |
0 |
0 |
8 |
| Lebanon (1982-1984) |
266 |
169 |
2 |
| Grenada (1983) |
10 |
152 |
9 |
| El Salvador (1983-1991) |
9 |
35 |
11 |
| Southwest Africa (1984) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Honduras (1984, 1989) |
1 |
28 |
N/A* |
| Libya (1986) |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| USS Stark - Persian Gulf (1987) |
37 |
21 |
0 |
| Persian Gulf (1987-1988) |
2 |
10 |
14 |
| Panama (1989-1990) |
23 |
240 |
18 |
| Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) |
148 |
467 |
235 |
| Aircraft Shoot Down, Peru (1992) |
1 |
5 |
0 |
| Somalia (1992-1994) |
30 |
175 |
14 |
| Haiti (1994) |
1 |
3 |
2 |
| Kohbar Towers, Saudi Arabia (1996) |
19 |
66 |
0 |
| U.S. Embassy, Kenya (1998) |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| Kosovo (1999) |
1 |
16 |
10 |
| USS Cole, Yemen (2000) |
17 |
39 |
0 |
| Islamist Terrorist Attacks (2001-2002) |
57 |
N/A* |
10 |
| Iraq War (2001-2016) |
3,519 |
32,246 |
965 |
| Afghanistan War (2001-2016) |
1,854 |
20,155 |
512 |
| Islamic State Campaign (2014-2016) |
1 |
5 |
12 |
| N/A* - Numbers Unknown or Unable to be determined. |
Reprinted from VFW Magazine, May 2016. Numbers accurate at time of publication.
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