Note: "Total casualties" includes wounded, combat and non-combat deaths but not missing in action.『Deaths – other』includes all non-combat deaths including those from bombing, massacres, disease, suicide, and murder.
"Deaths per day" is the total number of Americans killed in military service, divided by the number of days between the commencement and end of hostilities. "Deaths per population" is the total number of deaths in military service, divided by the U.S. population of the year indicated.
a.^Revolutionary War: All figures from the Revolutionary War are rounded estimates. Commonly cited casualty figures provided by the Department of Defense are 4,435 killed and 6,188 wounded, although the original government report that generated these numbers warned that the totals were incomplete and far too low.[88] In 1974, historian Howard Peckham and a team of researchers came up with a total of 6,824 killed in action and 8,445 wounded. Because of incomplete records, Peckham estimated that this new total number of killed in action was still about 1,000 too low.[89] Military historian John Shy subsequently estimated the total killed in action at 8,000, and argued that the number of wounded was probably far higher, about 25,000.[90] The "other" deaths are primarily from disease, including prisoners who died on British prison ships.
b.^Other actions against pirates: Includes actions fought in the West Indies, the Greek isles, off of Louisiana, China and Vietnam. Other deaths resulted from disease and accidents.
c.^Civil War: All Union casualty figures, and Confederate killed in action, from The Oxford Companion to American Military History except where noted (NPS figures).[20] estimate of total Confederate dead from James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1988), 854. Newer estimates place the total death toll at 650,000 to 850,000.[87] 148 of the Union dead were U.S. Marines.[91][92] ca.^Civil War April 2, 2012, Doctor David Hacker after extensive research offered new casualty rates higher by 20%; his work has been accepted by the academic community and is represented here.
d.^World War I figures include expeditions in North Russia and Siberia. See also World War I casualties
da.^World War II Note: as of March 31, 1946, there were an estimated 286,959 dead of whom 246,492 were identified; of 40,467 who were unidentified 18,641 were located {10,986 reposed in military cemeteries and 7,655 in isolated graves} and 21,826 were reported not located. As of April 6, 1946, there were 539 American Military Cemeteries which contained 241,500 dead. Note the American Battle Monuments Commission database for the World War II reports that in 18 ABMC Cemeteries total of 93,238 buried and 78,979 missing and that "The World War II database on this web site contains the names of those buried at our cemeteries, or listed as Missing in Action, buried or lost at sea. It does not contain the names of the 233,174 Americans returned to the United States for burial..." Similarly, the ABMC Records do not cover inter-war deaths such as the Port Chicago disaster in which 320 died. As of June 2018 total of US World War II casualties listed as MIA is 72,823[93]
e.^Korean War: Note:[20] gives Dead as 33,746 and Wounded as 103, 284 and MIA as 8,177. The American Battle Monuments Commission database for the Korean War reports that "The Department of Defense reports that 54,246 American service men and women lost their lives during the Korean War. This includes all losses worldwide. Since the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., honors all U.S. Military who lost their lives during the War, we have tried to obtain the names of those who died in other areas besides Korea during the period June 27, 1950, to July 27, 1954, one year after the Korean Armistice...". {For a breakdown of Worldwide casualties of 54,246 see The Korean War educator at [94] gives figures as In-theatre/non theater}
After their retreat in 1950, dead Marines and soldiers were buried at a temporary gravesite near Hungnam, North Korea. During "Operation Glory" which occurred from July to November 1954 the dead of each side were exchanged; remains of 4,167 US soldiers/Marines were exchanged for 13,528 North Korean/Chinese dead.[95] After "Operation Glory" 416 Korean War "unknowns" were buried in the Punchbowl Cemetery. According to a DPMO white paper.[96] 1,394 names were also transmitted during "Operation Glory" from the Chinese and North Koreans, of whom 858 names proved to be correct; of the 4,167 returned remains were found to be 4,219 individuals of whom 2,944 were found to be Americans of whom all but 416 were identified by name. Of 239 Korean War unaccounted for: 186 not associated with Punchbowl unknowns (176 were identified and of the remaining 10 cases 4 were non-Americans of Asiatic descent; one was British; 3 were identified and 2 cases unconfirmed); Of 10 Korean War "Punchbowl Unknowns" 6 were identified. The W.A. Johnson listing of 496 POWs – including 25 civilians[97] – who died in North Korea can be found here and there[98]
g.^Afghanistan. Casualties include those that occurred in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Philippines, Seychelles, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Yemen.
^ abMichael A Palmer Stoddert's War: Naval Operations During the Quasi-War with France 1798–1801 (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1987) pp. 119, 208, 218, 228
^The "other" deaths were primarily from disease. Donald R. Hickey, Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812t (University of Illinois Press, 2006), 297.
^Richard Blackmon, The Creek War, 1813–1814 (Center of Military History, 2014), 40.
^Kerry A Trask Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America (Henry Holt and Co, 2006) pp. 271–76
^Patrick Jung The Black Hawk War of 1832 (University of Oklahoma Press) pp. 170–172
^ abcdefghiJohn W. Chambers, II, ed. in chief, The Oxford Companion to American Military History. (Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN0-19-507198-0), 849.
^Frances Fuller Victor, The Cayuse Wars (The Early Indian Wars of Oregon, Pt 1). (Taxus Baccata Books, 2006, ISBN0-9729830-5-8), 211.
^AG Henry, Rogue River War. (YE Galleon Press, 1996, ISBN0-87770-573-9), 39.
^ abCW. Cornell, Deadliest Indian War in the West: The Snake Conflict 1864–1868 (Caxton Press, 2007)
^Ryden, George Herbert. The Foreign Policy of the United States in Relation to Samoa. New York: Octagon Books, 1975. (Reprint by special arrangement with Yale University Press. Originally published at New Haven: Yale University Press, 1928. pg.449
^Steve Rajtar, Indian War Sites (McFarland, 1999), pp. 230–32
^"Vietnam War U.S. Military Fatal Casualty Statistics, Electronic Records Reference Report". U.S. National Archives. 30 April 2019. DCAS Vietnam Conflict Extract File record counts by CASUALTY CATEGORY (as of April 29, 2008). Retrieved 2 August 2021. (generated from the Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files (as of April 29, 2008))
^ abcdeTable 13, Worldwide U.S. Active Duty Military Deaths,
Selected Military Operations, "Military Casualty Information". Archived from the original on 2008-01-22. Retrieved 2008-01-13., SAID, U.S. Department of Defense
^Peter Huchthausen, America's Splendid Little Wars: A Short History of U.S. Military Engagements 1975–2000. (Viking Press, 2003) p. 96.
^ ab"Kosovo Chronology". US Dept of State. 1999-05-21. Retrieved 2024-05-18. May 5: Two U.S. Army pilots are killed when an Apache helicopter crashes on a training mission in Albania, the first Allied deaths in the NATO actions against the F.R.Y. ... July 18: Two U.S. KFOR soldiers die in a car accident near Domorovce when their armored personnel carrier overturns.
^Roberts, Chris (2007-02-07). "Holloman commander recalls being shot down in Serbia". F-16.net. Retrieved 2024-05-19. [Lt Col Goldfein] felt a stinging sensation on his hand and he looked down to find blood welling from a minor shrapnel injury...
^Howard H. Peckham, ed., The Toll of Independence: Engagements & Battle Casualties of the American Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), xii.
^John Shy, A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence (revised edition, University of Michigan Press, 1990, ISBN0-472-06431-2), 249–50.